An urgent interdict to prevent the suspension of Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) head Robert McBride should not be granted because he has not yet been suspended, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Friday. “The applicant is not on suspension and no decision has been made,” Police Minister Nathi[…]
Even in a country wracked by violence for decades, the killing of a senior Afghan Sufi religious leader and 10 other men stands out from the statistics: shot in the backs of their heads while bowed in prayer, in a ruthless and apparently well-planned operation. The attack Saturday night has[…]
Media24 journalist Jan Gerber was manhandled and forced to delete photographs by individuals in white shirts, believed to be police officers, on Wednesday, the SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) tweeted. “Gerber was taking pictures of the unidentified police officers and also of public order policing vans,” Sanef said on its[…]
Hundreds of Myanmar police and hired thugs charged at students protesting a new education law on Tuesday, pummeling them with batons and then dragging them into trucks, ending a weeklong standoff. Witnesses said many of the demonstrators suffered injuries, some to the head. Police also chased after journalists, scattering them.[…]
Four people including a policewoman have been taken into custody over suspected links to the attacks that terrorized Paris in January, police and security officials said Monday. One man – who was already jailed in another case – had ties to Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed a policewoman on[…]
Police spokesman Musa Zondi on Monday confirmed that Minister Nathi Nhleko has asked law firm Werksmans to probe the Ipid’s findings on the Hawks, but said the minister has never raised the matter with directorate head Robert McBride. “The minister first wants to get the cold facts,” Zondi said of[…]
A popular butchery in Surrey Estate was stripped during an armed robbery on Monday morning. Three men walked into the Torrid Meat Market and held staff at gun point. The suspects demanded cash from the staff and assaulted one of the employees. Manenberg police station spokesperson Lieutenant Ian Bennett said[…]
Police used stun grenades to disperse a crowd of protesting school pupils outside the Western Cape education department’s offices on Friday, they confirmed. “[Police] members were met with resistance from the learners. Police started to used stun grenades in an attempt to defuse the situation,” Captain FC van Wyk said.[…]
The DA on Thursday will challenge legislation allowing for the arrest or removal of people who create a disturbance in the National Assembly. The party approached the Western Cape High Court after the removal of Economic Freedom Fighters MPs from the National Assembly during the state-of-the-nation address on February 12.[…]
Western Cape police could not answer questions about action taken during the state-of-the-nation address as it was a national operation, provincial commissioner Arno Lamoer said in Cape Town on Wednesday. “It is a national event. It is a national operation. There are different role players in that,” Lamoer told chairwoman[…]
WhatsApp us 