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IPID happy court denied police officer accused of killing his girlfriend bail
Richard Smit - who worked as a court orderly at the same court - was arrested after he shot Natasha Booise dead, in front of her loved ones, in January,...
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) swooped on the officers last week and they have appeared in court on charges of murder and assault.
The ATM party has asked the directorate to investigate the conduct of police after the burglary at President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm last year.
Former head of the State Security Agency Arthur Fraser opened a criminal complaint against Ramaphosa in June, claiming there was an attempt to cover up the crime.
The incident happened on Monday night while officers were following up on a gang apparently involved in a number of shootings in a local community.
Popcru union said the police continue to have a bloated top structure that needs to be reconfigured.
The child was shot in the head when police clashed with demonstrators during a protest in August 2020. The child fought for his life in a Cape Town hospital but after about two weeks in ICU, the machines keeping him alive were switched off.
National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole has been reported to his boss Police Minister Bheki Cele for allegedly blocking two Ipid investigations.
This time National Commissioner Khehla Sitole is accused of failing to cooperate with an investigation into suspected fraud and corruption involving SAPS management and a private company known as Brainware.
Kinnear was killed in September 2020 outside his Bishop Lavis home in Cape Town.
Ipid head Jennifer Ntlatseng has opened a criminal complaint against him for failing to cooperate with a probe into the murder of organised crime investigator, Charl Kinnear.
Ipid lists at least four attempts at getting National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole to make himself available to assist the police watchdog with its investigation into the murder of organised crime investigator, Charl Kinnear.
Ipid has now also escalated Sitole's non-cooperation with the probe to his boss, Police Minister Bheki Cele.
It's understood the victim was walking with friends and relatives when she was attacked on Sunday while another woman was injured in that incident.
On Wednesday the police opened fire at the vehicle thought to have been used to rob people in the area.
The 26-year-old man died at the Bellville South police station on Sunday night after he was arrested for assault.
The man died at the Bellville South Police Station on Sunday night after he was arrested for assault.
A video of the graphic shooting has gone viral. In the footage, the man can be seen fetching a gun and cocking it during a heated argument with police officers.
On Monday a television journalist was briefly detained by police, while DA federal leader Helen Zille was frog-marched out of a voting station.