Former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Johan Booysen says the police team assigned to investigate the 'Sunday Times' Cato Manor death squad stories tried to force witnesses to give incriminating statements against the implicated officers.
Former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Johan Booysen says when the High Court set aside the first decision by Nomgcobo Jiba it also set aside the predicate offences.
Former Hawks head Johan Booysen says alleged that former top cop Riah Phiyega ordered the Crime Intelligence dockets be removed from his colleague.
Nathi Mthethwa, who's now Arts and Culture Minister, has denied former KZN Hawks boss Johan Booysen's claims that he pressured authorities to have him arrested over the alleged rogue police unit.
The weekly admitted this week that articles on the so-called Cato Manor death squad were part of a tainted scoops series in 2011 and have turned out to be largely false.
Former Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says he would have found himself in hot water had he not called for an investigation into the so-called Cato Manor death squad back in 2011.
Talk Radio 702 presenter Karima Brown talks to Sanef chairperson Mahlatse Mahlase and former Hawks spokesperson McIntosh Polela about the 'Sunday Times' and the Cato Manor death squad stories.
The title recently admitted that the articles which were used as reason to suspend and prosecute former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Johan Booysen, and more than two dozen officers from his unit, turned out to be largely false.
Former Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says he was being accountable as a minister when he called for a probe into the 'Sunday Times' report of about a 'rogue' police unit in Durban.
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On Sunday, 'Sunday Times' editor Bongani Siqoko penned an editorial, acknowledging the newspaper was used as part of a political project.
Talk radio 702’s Bongani Bingwa interviews former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Johan Booysen and former Hawks spokesperson McIntosh Polela about the Sunday Times' apology over the Cato Manor death squad reports.
The paper ran the 'tainted' scoops in 2011, which have turned out to be largely false.
The editor penned an editorial on Sunday, in which he acknowledged the newspaper was used as part of a political project.
Johan Booysen says he says this latest development has come as a relief.
O'Sullivan identified three controversial narratives which had their genesis in the 'Sunday Times'.
Riah Phiyega & some top police officials have been accused of pursuing an agenda against Johan Booysen.
A 17-year-old teen was killed after police opened fire into a crowd of protesters in Cato Manor.
