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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansPolice Minister Bheki Cele has released the quarterly crime stats recorded between January 2023 and March 2023 on Tuesday the 30th of May 2023 with Gauteng, Kwa Zulu-Natal and Western Cape recording most of the killings.
·11 months ago
Deputy President Paul Mashatile's office has confirmed that the men caught on video assaulting civilians on the N1 highway in Johannesburg are part of his security detail.
·10 months ago
Following the Country's transit to Lock down level 1 on Sunday Midnight. The Minister Of Police Bheki Cele addressed members of the media in a briefing on Tuesday afternoon. In his briefing the Minister mentioned that in an effort t...
·over 3 years ago
The Minister of Police Bheki Cele has condemned the rising violence as protest escalate in the Free State . Ealier this week A 52-year-old farmer was arrested over his alleged involvement in the arson and vandalism of state propert...
·over 3 years ago
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Khombinkosi Jula has expressed his concern that citizens in the province are still being arrested on a daily basis for not complying with the adjusted alert Level 3 Lockdown ...
·over 3 years ago
The Minister of Police Bheki Cele has released the 2020/21 quarter which reflect crimes committed between Level 1 and Adjusted Level 3 Lockdown, which kicked in, on the 15th of December. Murder Cele said in the three months of report...
·about 3 years ago
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is calling for the suspension of the South African Police Service (SAPS) National Commissioner General Khehla Sitole pending the outcome of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) investigatio...
·about 3 years ago
Following the latest spate of murders on the notorious Cape Flats in the Cape Town, the South African government has decided to send in the army. The move has been welcomed by many who want to see an end to the rampant violence, crime an...
·almost 5 years ago
Police in Gauteng are heightening visibility and have intensified crime prevention and road safety operations as the Easter long weekend looms. Acting Gauteng Commissioner of Police, Major General Tommy Mthombeni led the O Kae Molao O...
·about 3 years ago
Like all government departments, the South African Police Service is feeling the effects of the country’s fiscal crisis, several years of understaffing and state capture
·over 1 year ago
President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Sunday, 05 September 2021 at 10h00, join families of slain police officers at the annual South African Police Service Commemoration Day.
·over 2 years ago
Women in law enforcement have been encouraged to publicly denounce the scourge of gender-based violence (GBV) and to assist vulnerable members of society to resist all forms of discrimination and abuse. Wrapping up Women’s Month activiti...
·over 2 years ago
The DA is calling on the South African Police Service (SAPS) to take action against the EFF after yet another of their marches has broken numerous lockdown regulations to which ordinary South Africans are required to adhere. Pictures ...
·over 2 years ago
South Africa has a painful history of police using excessive force against protesters. In one of the worst incidents under the apartheid government 69 protesters were shot in cold blood by police outside a police station in Sharpeville i...
·about 3 years ago
The South African Police Service (SAPS) briefed Parliament on Friday morning on the latest crime statistics, which revealed a 3.1% decrease in the murder rate between April and June this year.
·9 months ago
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has expressed that the Gauteng Commissioner of police, Lieutenant General Elias Mawela, has mobilised police resources. This following news of the murder of two children in Soweto, who were found y...
·about 1 year ago
It has been exactly a week since the Nqobizitha Zulu and Tshiamo Amogelang Rabanye were reported missing, and police seem to be a step closer at granting their families justice. This is as two suspects have been arrested for their murder...
·about 1 year ago
The 16th of August 2023 marks exactly 11 years since the Marikana Massacre took place when police officers shot striking workers of Lonmin Platinum Mine in Marikana, North West, in the deadliest strike in the democratic dispensation.
·9 months ago
The Census 2022 data will be used in the work being coordinated by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation on the 30-year review of progress since the advent of democracy and for the development of the medium-term national ...
·6 months ago
The problem is that the implementation of strategy is in limbo. No government agency has been willing to take responsibility for it. That’s because there is no direct budgetary allocation, given the highly constrained government purse.
·5 months ago
I recently authorised the deployment of 3,300 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) personnel to support the SAPS in its ongoing operations against illegal mining for a six-month period. This deployment will provide valuable suppo...
·6 months ago
Following almost a year since the rape of eight women in Krugersdorp, the South African Police Service (SAPS) have issued a public apology to the victims after their private information was leaked. A final report following an investigati...
·12 months ago
Gauteng Premier, Panyaza Lesufi took the time to visit the homes of the affected families who lost their children in what has since been described as a "gruesome murder". Lesufi was accompanied by the MECs of Education and Community Safe...
·about 1 year ago
The Ministers of Police and the Department of Justice and Correctional Services (JCS), Bheki Cele and Ronald Lamola have expressed gratitude to the Tanzanian government for what has been described as “its unequivocal co-operation in the ...
·about 1 year ago
The African National Congress (ANC), which was voted into power, had a laudable vision in the 1990s for reforming the police, military and intelligence services. Determined that South Africans would never again be subject to the brutalit...
·8 days ago