Police Minister Bheki Cele says last year’s unrest in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng demonstrated the urgent need for police to rebuild relations with communities. Cele delivered the Police Department’s budget vote of more than R100 billion to the National Assembly for the 2022/23 financial year. He says R10 million[…]
Police minister Bheki Cele on Friday condemned the murder of Thembisa police officer Sgt Sharon Mogale. Mogale, 45, was shot in the head when four robbers attacked and disarmed her and her partner, Sgt Mapule Petje, while at a shop in Thembisa on Thursday. Cele, together with the Gauteng police[…]
Western Cape police say eight people have now died following Wednesday’s shooting in Gugulethu on the Cape Flats. Police spokesperson Novela Potelwa says five people died on the scene and three others died in hospital. One person was injured during the attack. She says the victims were attending a traditional[…]
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) has called on the police to immediately cease the surveillance of journalists. It says it will address the issue with Police Minister Bheki Cele and President Cyril Ramaphosa. In the latest incident, the house of an investigative journalist from the Daily Maverick was[…]
Police Minister Bheki Cele has commended the swift arrest of 21 suspects allegedly behind 16 incidents of liquor store looting in the Western Cape since the start of the nationwide lockdown. Cele was visiting the Western Cape on Saturday with police top brass amid several liquor-related crimes in the country.[…]
Police Minister Bheki Cele says the government will not tolerate police killings anywhere in the country. He was addressing a memorial service of slain Constable Songezo Khethiwe at Delft in Cape Town on Thursday. The service was attended by senior police officers in the Western Cape, family, friends and members of the[…]
African National Congress NEC member Bheki Cele says one of the reasons for the recall of former President Jacob Zuma was the Constitutional Court judgment on Nkandla where the court found that “the President failed to uphold the Constitution”. The ConCourt judgment on Nkandla was handed down in March 2016,[…]
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