Source: The Star newspaper 17 May 2012
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Former Police Patroller Attacks Democratic Alliance Supporter
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SAPS chief’s political bombshell
April 20 2012 at 09:00am
By Deon de Lange
By Deon de Lange
Acting police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi dropped a bombshell in Parliament yesterday when he told MPs that “powers beyond us” had been telling him who he may or may not investigate – suggesting illegal political interference in investigative decisions.
Answering an unrelated question about poor conviction rates, Mkhwanazi said: “We have been told in many instances of late that we don’t have the right to investigate certain case dockets.”
He went on to claim that he had been instructed by “powers beyond us” to “release some case dockets to the inspector-general for intelligence”, in what seems to have been a thinly masked reference to criminal investigations against Crime Intelligence Division (CID) boss Richard Mdluli.
Mkhwanazi did not say who had given him these instructions, and The Star could not get clarification on his comments.
Mdluli stands accused – in an internal police investigation report – of plundering the CID’s secret service account to buy cars, houses and holidays and to illegally employ dozens of his family members as so-called “covert agents”.
The controversial general also faced murder charges last year relating to the unexplained death in 1999 of Oupa Ramogibe, the husband of Mdluli’s then girlfriend.
Speaking after yesterday’s meeting, DA police spokeswoman Dianne Kohler Barnard said the acting commissioner “does not appear to understand the full implications of his revelations today”.
“He has admitted openly what we have always assumed to be the case – that there is political interference in the SAPS. Remember, the Scorpions investigated too many ANC members and were consequently shut down. (Mkhwanazi) has today confirmed that SAPS members have received instructions not to investigate certain matters,” she added.
Mkhwanazi’s apparent slip of the tongue came after three days of increasingly hostile questioning by members of Parliament’s police committee during hearings into the police’s strategic plan for the year ahead.
Police corruption – the elephant in the room during the three days of hearings – also came to a head yesterday.
Annelize van Wyk (ANC) led the charge, noting that the cops had incurred irregular expenditure to the tune of R75 million last year – and spent a whopping R150m on “entertainment”.
She was followed by Kohler Barnard, who complained about the tendency for police officers caught with their fingers in the till to be placed on early retirement – with golden parachutes.
Velaphi Ndlovu (IFP) wanted to know from the top brass which senior officers had, in recent times, been arrested and jailed for graft, but he was met with stony-faced silence.
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Amnesty red flag police brutality
May 13 2011
By Craig Dodds
By Craig Dodds
Amnesty International’s Report 2011 has flagged police torture, deaths in custody, extrajudicial killings and threats to the work of human rights defenders as matters of concern in South Africa.
With police brutality in the spotlight following the killing of Ficksburg community worker Andries Tatane and reports of violent raids on Joburg and Cape Town nightclubs, the rights body added its weight in its report, released yesterday, to the growing concern on the matter.
It cited Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) figures for April 2009 to March last year, which recorded five direct complaints against the police of torture and 920 complaints of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, some of which were being investigated for evidence of torture. Seven of 294 deaths in custody were linked to torture and 90 others to “injuries sustained in custody”.
The ICD also investigated 24 complaints of rape by police officers.
Also of concern to Amnesty were proposed changes to the Criminal Procedures Act that would allow police to use deadly force against a suspect resisting or fleeing arrest, where they believe there is a risk of “future death” if the suspect escapes. This, it noted, allowed for the use of deadly force “in circumstances beyond those allowed by international human rights standards”.
The report also raised concerns over threats to freedom of expression and the work of human rights defenders.
It cited, among others, the trial of 12 supporters of housing rights movement Abahlali baseMjondolo on charges relating to violence in the Kennedy Road informal settlement in 2009 and the unlawful arrest of Sunday Times journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika after his reports on an alleged hit squad linked to senior Limpopo provincial government members.
Also of concern were ANC proposals for a media appeals tribunal and the tabling of the “draconian” Protection of Information Bill.
Police ministry spokesman Zweli Mnisi said: “We condemn any police brutality on innocent civilians. Equally, we strongly condemn any killing of police officers by criminals.” - Cape Argus
Crimes of the South African Police Service
13th of May 2012
Let me show you a current affairs example of how the ANC cogs work, how they love criminals, defend criminals and promote criminals because they are above the law and a law unto themselves.
I also want to show you how the ANC wants to cover all of this (and a lot more revelations of corruption and misrule) up by legislation known as the “Protection on Information Bill”.
Currently in the news is the controversial Richard Mdluli, head of the Crime Intelligence Unit of the Police. A criminal of note himself.
The Mail and Guardian published an article today with the following caption: Mdluli report’s shocking revelations
The document is headed: “Report to the inspector general of intelligence on the matter of alleged maladministration and crimes committed in respect of the Secret Services Account (SSA) of the crime intelligence division of the South African Police Service.”
In it they detail the Hawk’s investigation into the Crime Intelligent boss, Richard Mdluli and how this criminal gangster, murder suspect and former Apartheid government spy turned double agent misused secret funds courtesy of the taxpayers of SA for the benefit of himself and of his own family.
Cars for the family courtesy of the taxpayer
It detailed specifically the usage of these funds to by him and his current wife (Col T Lyons) luxury BMW cars (a 5-series for him and a 3-series for her) in addition to their other cars a Jeep Cherokee SRT8, two E-Class Mercedes-Benzes and a Lexus…
Nepotism
The report also states how Mdluli “employed” around 23 members of his family and their friends as undercover “principal agents”.
These people included the appointment/promotion of his current wife as a police colonel, her brother and other members of her family, his ex-wife, her daughter and his son, as well as two ‘girlfriends’ in the Eastern Cape.
As far as can be ascertained, none of these are actually involved in bone fide undercover operations in pursuance of the operational objectives of the SA Police Service Crime Intelligence Division.
Flying friends and family around on taxpayer’s costs
Mdluli and his cohorts were also flown around the country courtesy of the secret service account.
Lt Gen Mdluli and his family travelled on more than 50 occasions while “a prominent business person” and his family, not limited to those in the agent programme, travelled on more than 50 occasions.”
“An overseas trip to Singapore at the end of 2009 for purposes of viewing and purchasing technical equipment for crime intelligence — Of note to the investigation team was the fact that the spouses of Lt Gen Mdluli (T Lyons) and Maj Gen [Solly] Lazarus (the manager of the secret service account) and Col Barnard accompanied them on the trip.
“It is evident that Maj Gen Lazarus and Col Barnard financed their spouses’ trip costs, but that of Col Lyons (who was not a member of the SAPS at the time) — was funded from the secret service account.”
Fraud with Safe Houses
As if this is not enough, various safe houses have been rented for the exclusive use of Mdluli and his family.
He even let the taxpayer’s “rent” his own house but then exclusively used it to house his own family.
“A property in Gordon’s Bay, belonging to Lt Gen Mdluli, was rented by crime intelligence, but used only by him. A possibility that still needs to be confirmed is that during the time that crime intelligence was hiring the property, other tenants were also hiring it from him.”
Paying off Journalists
According to another article Two journalists were allegedly paid respectively R100,000 to write a positive story about the police, and R50,000 not to publish a story about a senior cop. How Mdluli looted CIU and paid off journalists
The Murder Case
The murder case against Mdluli was withdrawn when the NPA decided instead to institute an inquest into the 1999 death of Oupa Ramogibe, an alleged love rival of Mdluli. The authority withdrew charges despite being in possession of an independent legal opinion that reportedly recommended it proceed.
When the M&G questioned the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga, he said advocate Lawrence Mrwebi’s (the man controversially appointed by Zuma to head the commercial crimes unit), decision to withdraw the case against Mdluli “was informed by the insufficiency of relevant and admissible evidence to sustain charges”.
This was denied by one experienced investigator familiar with the probe, who described the fraud charge as “a slam-dunk case”.
The mountain of evidence against Mdluli and how his “Fearsome Four” got spectacular promotions
Richard Mdluli the Apartheid Spy
City Press spoke to six independent sources who confirmed that as a young policeman Mdluli was a member of the notorious apartheid Security Branch – also referred to as “SB” – that arrested, interrogated and tortured anti-apartheid activists.
Mdluli was SB
The sources – ANC members, police officers and former Umkhonto weSizwe members – were all too scared to go on record and said they suspected their phones might be bugged.
The ANC did not deny it. An ANC NEC member said it was “common knowledge” that Mdluli was a member of the SB.
“ANC intelligence knew that Mdluli was part of SB,” said a police source. “That’s why people are puzzled about his protection now.”
Mdluli told the Mail & Guardian the report was “bullshit” and that his signature on the document, to declassify it, was forged.
Further revelations showed that Mdluli and top Crime Intelligence generals and officers used Apartheid era hit squad bases to joll it up with prostitutes…all at the taxpayer’s costs.Generals live it up at ex-hit squad base .
What a slap in the face this must be to the ANC supporters and the MK veterans?
In a perverse twist of irony, ANC Fat Cats have been entertaining friends and families in the very place where ANC cadres were tortured and political assassinations plotted.
Mdluli claimed Racist White Plot against him
Of course Mdluli claims he is innocent and that white journalists and white policemen brought from the Western Cape were targeting him.
It is all a racist driven plot - Mdluli
Mdluli claimed Black ANC faction plot against him
I wish this paranoid twit would make up his mind who is plotting against him.
Mdluli also claimed that a high ranking conspiracy from within the ANC ranks driven by Minister of Human Settlements Tokyo Sexwale who was leading a campaign to unseat Zuma in Mangaung is out to get rid of him.
The claims of a conspiracy were made in a letter to Zuma, Mthethwa and acting police chief Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi in November last year. Both Zuma and Mthethwa denied receiving the letter this week.
City Press has seen three affidavits on which Mdluli relies to prove the conspiracy against him. One is by a crime intelligence officer and two by police informants from Vosloorus, Mdluli’s hometown.
In it they claim that a Colonel Ronnie Naidoo from crime intelligence had obtained information that Hawks boss Anwa Dramat, Gauteng police chief Mzwandile Petros and head of detectives Godfrey Lebeya asked suspended police boss Bheki Cele to get rid of Mdluli.
Mdluli’s claims of the anti-Zuma faction conspiracy
Eight days ago Tokyo Sexwale was furious about the intelligence report that surfaced during the Mdluli investigation that fingered him as a conspirator against Zuma and having presidential ambitions. He called the report a fake designed to confuse and sow division.
Tokyo Sewale had enough of plot rumours
But the plot rumours must have been true, because today the Sunday Times reported that Tokyo Sexwale is taking on Zuma for the presidency in Manguang (Bloemfontein)
“Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale's ANC presidential campaign has finally gotten off the ground with his lobbyists putting together an election slate they hope will help him unseat President Jacob Zuma.”
Sexwale’s supporters plan to install current secretary-general Gwede Mantashe as deputy president and Deputy Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula as secretary-general.
Friends in high places to the rescue
Another article by the M & G revealed how the President himself, honourable Jacob Zuma personally intervened to stop the investigation against Richard Mdluli.
Friends in high places rescue Mdluli
This included the fraud and murder charges.
Suspended Mdluli has been reinstated and this will allow him to purge the police Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) of all his and Zuma’s enemies. It will also put him in pole position to replace Bheki Cele, who is considered not loyal enough to Zuma, as Police Commissioner.
“According to a well-informed source, a plan is in place to transfer command of the police VIP division and presidential protection unit to fall under the control of crime intelligence. This will not only ensure that they fall under Mdluli’s command, but will also give him direct access to the most intimate day-to-day details of the activities of all of Zuma’s political rivals.“
Consequences for SA
In order to prevent the truth from coming out of how the ANC turned a prosperous first world country into a Criminal Mafia State, the ANC wants to pass the “Protection of information bill” to paper over the rot that they caused.
It basically means that the ANC will be able to declare any information as “classified” and will be able to jail for years any whistleblowers or journalists exposing their ANC corruption and mismanagement.
Further, Jacob Zuma, his communist supporters and his cronies are fighting for their future existence and as they see it, the right to centralize their communist power. They want to control the relatively independent media and the judiciary so they can keep on stealing from ordinary South Africans to their heart’s content.
But there are other powerful forces at play…
Since the ANC came to power, both the Communist (with Chinese, Cuban, former East German and Russian support) and the Western world have tried to influence this organization.
There is a tug-o-war going in for control and influence within the ANC. For a while the CIA, MI6 (Western) faction thought they were winning with their main man, British educated, Thabo Mbeki until he proved to be an alcoholic, paranoid idiot.
The Communists won the next round with getting their man Jacob Zuma in power.
But the West is noticing that things are slipping away from them and the Communists are getting too powerful in SA with them trying to centralize all the power as they normally do.
So their answer is their next darling, Tokyo Sexwale, one of the ANC business men they have been courting and grooming for many years, like Cyril Ramaphosa and Patrice Motsepe.
But they are either making a big and ignorant mistake or they are doing it on purpose…
For those who think that things will be better under Tokyo Sexwale, just remember that his “businessman facade” is just there as a front to hide the fact that he is in fact a hard-line Communist.
He was trained as a military officer in the Soviet Union and in 2002 was refused a USA visa (along with other ANC members including Nelson Mandela) because he was still on their list of international terrorists.
Also remember that one of his companies, Mvelaphanda Holdings, secretly funded Julias Malema Tokyo Sexwale company Mvela funded Julias Malema
Last year he lied and denied that he supported Malema.
Forget his celebrity status on "The Apprentice". If Tokyo Sexwale becomes president in SA, the whites of the country can kiss their arses goodbye. He will be WORSE than Zuma. History will be my witness and I have rarely been wrong.
Crimes of the South African Police Service
10th of May 2012
On Freedom Day 27th of April 2012 President Jacob Zuma proclaimed his and the ANC’s undying love for criminal scum in South Africa. He was going to unleash 35,000 criminals, some of which are dangerous rapist, hijackers and murderers onto the SA public.
Take note of the revolving door of the SA criminal justice system.
It is currently in full swing.
Free State, Northern Cape to free 2 800 inmates - report
Freedom given to 3,500 Eastern Cape prisoners
35 000 offenders could be released
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Claims of police brutality in Durban
June 20 2007 at 11:39am
By Miranda Andrew, Arthi Sanpathh and Ayanda Mhlongo
Protest action peaked in Durban on Tuesday as police clashed with hundreds of informal traders angered over the arrests of their colleagues.
Police arrested about 500 people on Tuesday and 25 protesters on Monday.
Allegations of police brutality were again rife as Metro and South African Police Service officers armed with shotguns, batons, pepper spray and stun grenades herded protesting traders into waiting police vans. The massive crowd of more than 500 people gathered outside the Durban magistrate's court where 25 traders appeared.
Although the traders carried sticks and stones, onlookers said they were appalled at the way police subdued traders.
Daily News journalists and photographers witnessed numerous incidents in which police randomly assaulted men and women reminiscent of the apartheid-style tactics used by police during political protests.
Metro police had waited for back-up before using rubber bullets, stun grenades, pepper spray and a water canon to disperse the crowds.
They then resorted to grabbing traders by their throats, dragging them and throwing them into the back of police trucks. Some traders who managed to flee were caught further down the road and, according to onlookers, beaten.
Police used batons to strike traders across the face while others held back traders and squirted spray directly into their eyes.
"The trucks are filled to capacity with traders now. Once they are dropped off at holding cells, they will return to pick up the rest," said one Metro officer.
One woman collapsed and suffered an epileptic fit while another had an anxiety attack. Both traders were made to sit against the court gates and wait.
Among those assaulted was Futhi Mkhwanazi, 31, who claimed she was assaulted by the police after leaving the court.
"We could hear the noise of the protesters from inside the court building and by then the gates were closed so I begged the guards to let me out because I was waiting for a relative to bring me documents that I had forgotten at home.
"The trouble had already started but I thought that I was going to wait at a distance from the gate so that I could see my relative," she said.
She said that while waiting a group of traders ran towards her when police threw teargas at them.
"All of a sudden I was grabbed by three officers who began beating me with their batons and swearing. I cried and tried to explain that I was not part of the crowd but they continued," she said tearfully.
During the scuffle, Mkhwanazi was injured and had to call her brother to pick her up from the police station.
She said she had never seen such brutality from the police.
"I am still shocked and horrified by the way people, including women, were treated. The authorities need to look at this situation seriously," she said.
Trader organisations have condemned the police actions saying they were merely trying to voice their dissatisfaction with trading laws and facilities.
Said Themba Duma, vice president for the Informal Traders Management Board: "We are trading without proper facilities like water and toilets and cannot do business properly. We are being harassed by police continuously and arrested for no reason.
"We are here to negotiate and sort out the problem, but Metro does not want to listen. We tried to talk to Metro to allow our people to go, but they don't even want to talk to us," he added.
In response, South African Police Service spokesperson Superintendent Vincent Mdunge said the protesters had gathered to call for the release of their friends arrested on Monday.
"The roads had to be completely blocked off as the vendors were intimidating officers. We then brought in a water canon to disperse the crowds, however, this made them react violently towards the police officers," said Mdunge.
"We are not sure as to the number of people arrested at this point as those arrested are still being processed at the Durban Central Police Station," he said.
The arrested street traders would be charged under the Violation of Public Violence Act, the Public Gatherings Act and the Malicious Destruction to Property Act, he said.
City manager Dr Michael Sutcliffe and Mayor Obed Mlaba were unavailable for comment.
It is believed that Sutcliffe has however launched his own investigation into the actions of the Metro Police
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More white women raped by black police men in South Africa
Posted in the South Africa Forum
Dec 24, 2011
South African black police and their friends gang-raped two white girls in December 2011 in Sandton. The policemen are segeants at Sandton Police Station.
Even worse, they are out on bail already and back at work, driving around Sandton!
For more info please see www.facebook.com/pages/South-African-Police-A ...
I'd really appreciate it if you could spread word of this as South African white women are now living in fear of the police in Johannesburg!
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SANCO ‘angered’ by police brutality
May 1 2012 at 04:12pm
By SAPA
By SAPA
The South African National Civic Organisation has expressed its anger about the assault of a hawker by four Johannesburg metro police officers.
“This act is uncalled for as we come from incidents of killings of the police by taxi driver and civilians. We condemned these killings of police a few days ago,” spokesman Dumisane Mthalane said in a statement.
“It becomes much difficult when the men in uniform become thugs against innocent civilians.”
Andries Ndlovu, 37, was beaten in Ivory Park, near Midrand, last Friday, apparently after he tried to stop the officers from beating a 60-year-old man, the Sunday Times reported.
A 22-second cellphone video of the attack was recorded by an onlooker. Officers are shown kicking and stamping on Ndlovu after he had fallen down, according to the weekly.
SANCO condemned police brutality and brutality committed against the police. The organisation called on police to “root out bad elements that tarnish” the police's image.
The officers allegedly beat up a 60-year-old welder, Joseph Khumalo, when he demanded a receipt or notice when his goods were impounded. Ndlovu asked the officers why they were assaulting Khumalo, he told the paper. He was punched in his face, and started to fight back.
Khumalo's two sons, Ananias and Michael, said they were also assaulted.
Metro police spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar asked the Sunday Times for a copy of the video so disciplinary action could be taken. - Sapa
Crimes of the South African Police Service
South African Police Service Attack Poor People
17/11/2009
South Africa
Quote: “A group of Durban shack dwellers say that local police attacked, abused, and intimidated residents on Friday night. It's the third alleged police-related attack in two months. But why would authorities target a group of shack dwellers?
Our Observer says that the November 13 attack is part of a mission to get rid of an increasingly powerful shack dwellers' rights group which is critical of ruling party ANC. Just two months ago the police failed to react to fatal clashes (see video below) in the neighbouring shantytown of Kennedy Road - which is also home to the movement. Activists condemned the violence as "coordinated" and the police as "complicit", in an open letter to President Jacob Zuma, which received over 1,250 signatures.
Quote: “They tore through the settlement, kicking down doors, issuing beatings with fists, batons, and even household items. The police shot, at random, with live ammunition, within close range of people and their homes. They assaulted both women and men. One man was told by police officers that ‘This is to teach you people a lesson'.”
Quote: “The police always make their arrests on Fridays or on public holidays as it is difficult to get a lawyer at these times and people can be held (and sometimes assaulted in detention) until the courts reopen. The police systematically abuse their powers to arrest and detain people as a form of intimidation. They routinely arrest and detain people when they know very well that they have no evidence against them and will not be able to go to trial."
Crimes of the South African Police Service
May 5, 2011
The Pietermaritzburg High Court has found Sheryl Cwele, the wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, guilty of drug trafficking.
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