Khehla sitole
UPDATE: We didn’t do it - 5 Meyiwa murder-accused refuse to step into dock
Police have finally made a breakthrough, six years after the soccer player was shot dead in Vosloorus.
Deputy National Police Commissioner for human resources, Bonang Mgwenya, appeared in a Joburg court on Monday on charges of fraud, corruption, theft, and money laundering.
In July last year, the SANDF was deployed to various hotspot areas to assist police in their duties to try curb the intense flare-up in violent crime, much of it gang-related.
The eight officers were handcuffed in a Thursday morning operation along with a former lieutenant general and six private citizens.
Modack had brought an urgent application to the Western Cape High Court in November to restrain police in the Western Cape from arresting him, confronting him and searching his premises.
Police said on Tuesday the constable was found slumped over in the driver’s seat of a state-owned Quantum minibus with a gunshot wound to his head.
National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole said the South African Police Service was undergoing a restructuring process that would see more officers on the ground and less senior officials.
A team comprising of members from Crime Intelligence, the Hawks, and other units were conducting operations to address crime patterns in the areas of Dalton, Greytown and Wartburg.
South Africa recorded over 21,000 murders for the 2018/2019 year, an increase of 686 murders from the previous year.
In an interview with EWN's Clement Manyathela on 702, National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole admitted that although they had intelligence on the violence, they were not proactive enough.
Policing without ensuring education and other programmes are optimal is not enough for a community crying out for help from government, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
Allegations of double voting featured prominently throughout the sixth national elections, prompting the Electoral Commission of South Africa to announce an audit into the process.
The DA’s Solly Msimanga has opened a case against the ANC for allegedly instigating violence and accused the governing party of seeking to use the protests in Alexandra to influence the outcome of the upcoming elections.
MPs on Wednesday raised concerns over the police’s Crime Intelligence unit’s methods and whether they are legal.
This after two police officers and seven robbers were killed during an attempted cash-in-transit heist in Nongoma in KwaZulu-Natal.
The matter relates to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid)’s investigation of tender fraud and corruption worth an estimated R100 million and involving Durban company I-View.
National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole says new training methods are geared towards professionalising the police service.
Ipid boss Robert McBride has filed an answering affidavit and a counter application to compel top cop Khehla Sitole and police management to declassify documents needed in three separate corruption cases involving I-View.
Ipid is investigating Durban-based company I-View and several senior officials, including National Police Commissioner General Khehla Sitole, on tender fraud worth tens of millions of rands.