Police Minister Bheki Cele vowed on Monday to combat the plague of serious and violent crime, mainly aggravated robberies, that continue to grip the country. Cele said the department would introduce a high-density stabilisation intervention. He was speaking at a media briefing at the South African Police Service training academy[…]
Despite vociferous calls for the deployment of the army to gang afflicted communities, the Minister of Police says the army will not be deployed to the Cape Flats. Various stakeholders from the community met for a ministerial session with the Minister of Police Bheki Cele on Thursday to address the[…]
Water Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane has criticised ANC presidential hopeful Cyril Ramaphosa for being two-faced towards President Jacob Zuma and warns that there is “danger” about him. “I sit with them [Ramaphosa and Zuma] in the national executive committee (NEC), national working committee (NWC) and Cabinet and you see them[…]
There could be a significant drop in crimes like home robberies and carjacking if police leadership followed the example of former police commissioner Bheki Cele, the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said on Tuesday. SAIRR crime analyst Kerwin Lebone told News24 following the release of the 2014/15 crime statistics[…]
The Congress of the People (Cope) wants President Jacob Zuma to take action against Deputy Agriculture Minister Bheki Cele for comments he made about the national police commissioner. “If he fails to act against him, he will have said to all of us that his government condones rogue behaviour,” Cope[…]
Former police commissioner Bheki Cele says the Farlam Commission of Inquiry’s findings into the Marikana shooting should be released. “It should be made public,” he told News24. “Some of us, our commissions were live and the results were there for everyone to read.” Thirty-four people were killed near Lonmin’s platinum[…]
The SA Police Service is bleeding under current national commissioner Riah Phiyega, her predecessor Bheki Cele has said. “Reversals that are in the police are her [fault],” he told News24. “It’s reversals and lies.” Cele said, under Phiyega, more and more officers were leaving the police force. He was told[…]
Attacks on farms, which often result in the murder of farm owners, had nothing to do with the victims’ race, Deputy Agriculture Minister Bheki Cele said on Tuesday. “We are urging everybody, starting with the media and everybody — take the race issue out of farm murders. The people that[…]
Communities and the country at large cannot live in fear due to acts of criminality and criminals, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Bheki Cele said on Tuesday. “We can’t live this life of fear,” the former national police commissioner told residents of Vosloorus, on the East Rand, at[…]
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