Jokes on the South African Police Service
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Cops Cheer Police Senior Manager Death
The killing of a controversial Durban metro police
senior manager triggered widespread celebrations, with some describing it as
“good riddance”.
Innocent
Chamane, the support services manager, was gunned down as he arrived home in
KwaNgcolosi, near Hillcrest, on Tuesday evening.
While some celebrated, privately and
on social media platforms, others reacted with shock and horror.
The Mercury spoke to a number of officers in the unit and most “welcomed” the death. Over the past few years Chamane was viewed as the unit’s “public enemy number one”.
The municipality issued a statement
on Wednesday sending condolences to Chamane’s family. It did not contain any
details except to confirm the murder and that “circumstances surrounding the
incident are unknown” and were being investigated.
The metro policeman added that
Chamane’s “brazen” attitude “affected metro police
tremendously. Dictatorship was
imposed, aligned to politics”.
A second policeman, who also asked
for his identity to be withheld, was scathing in his criticism. He accused
Chamane of “putting people in hospital, abusing dogs and horses (in the dog and
mounted patrol units) without consequences”.
“He stopped a salary of one member
for 12 months and the member lost his wife until a new HR manager intervened.
The member’s fault was refusing redeployment to another department,” he said.
When The Mercury arrived at Chamane’s
home on Wednesday, several cars were parked in the yard, while an unidentified
woman sobbed uncontrollably at the corner of the house. A young woman who had
been consoling her went to sit a few metres away and broke into tears.
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Cops Arrested Robbing A Store
Sep
10, 2013 • Written by: Staff Writer
Kimberley – Two police
officers and 2 civilians were arrested while trying to break into a store in
Jan Kempdorp in the Northern Cape on Monday night. Responding to information
that a shop in the area was to be burgled a team of police units set up an
operation to catch the alleged suspects. A…
Kimberley – Two police
officers and 2 civilians were arrested while trying to break into a store in
Jan Kempdorp in the Northern Cape on Monday night. Responding to information
that a shop in the area was to be burgled a team of police units set up an operation
to catch the alleged suspects.
A group of undercover police
officials laid in wait inside the shop. At about 11.30pm police officers heard
noises on the roof as the suspects cut the alarm wires. At around 1.30am,
unaware of the awaiting officers, the suspects broke into the shop.
The police immediately
arrested the 4 suspects, 2 of which turned out to be police constables. One of
the suspects was shot in the leg while trying to flee the scene. He was taken
to hospital for treatment.
The suspects have been
detained on charges of Housebreaking (business) and possession of an unlicensed
firearm. They are expected to appear in the Jan Kempdorp magistrates court
tomorrow.
The matter will also be
investigated by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Illegal arrest: Police
arrest good neighbour André Brand for defending Cronjé family from 3 armed
black attackers
23:35 Jan 23 2015 Nelspruit, South
Africa
Description
Illegal arrest: NELSPRUIT neighbour André Brand,
arrested for chasing off three armed black attackers of Afrikaner smallholder
Deon Cronjé, wife Melissa, daughter 9, and one-month-old baby
-- Brand was arrested for 'owning an illegal firearm' when he fired off one warning shot against three black males were had attacked the young Cronjé couple across the street.
The three black males fired two shots at Brand after assaulting and tying up the Cronjé couple. The suspects have not been caught but two days after the incident the police showed up
at the doorstep of Mr Brand and dragged him into court for 'illegal firearms possession' of his legal .22 handgun.
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--- FIREARMS REGISTRY OFFICE IN DISARRAY
NOTE: (*Since the recent collapse of the Central Firearms Registry office in Pretoria, which has fallen into disarray due to gross mismanagement, it's impossible to determine whether any firearms are legal or not. The South African Police cannot prove whether any weapons are illegal. See story below).http://mg.co.za/article/2014-10-18-r400-million-firearms-control-system-in-shambles/
AND legal documentation of the illegal syndicate which sells illegal firearms licenses:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/193052/PrimaryDocuments/FirearmsRegistryDocuments.zip
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The attack started in broad daylight on 22 January 2015 when Deon Cronjé was inside their homestead just getting ready to step into the shower, wife Melissa was just relaxing on the stoep after feeding their one-month-old baby when three black males stormed towards her.
One brandished a machete and the other two had firearms. They forced the young mom into the house. Deon inside heard his wife screaming and when he opened the bathroom door he saw the three black thugs tying up his wife and their nine-year-old daughter.
Deon was plucked naked from the room - he had lost one arm in an accident years ago and reportedly the suspects 'struggled to tie him up' for this reason.
Meanwhile the Cronjé family's domestic worker, who was taking a shower in the rear bathroom of the house, heard the commotion and rushed to get help from the neighbours
across the street, Mr André Brand and his family.
Brand said he was inside his house visiting with friends when his housekeeper came running in to warn him of the attack going on across the street.
Brand took a .22 pistol from his room and hid behind a large white rock in front of his house - and saw the black suspects leave the Cronjé property with their car.
Just then one of the black thugs climbed from the Cronjé vehicle, cursing and shouting and running towards the Cronjé house. "It looked as if the man was going back to the Cronjé house and I suspected he wanted to back to go and hurt that family,' he said.
So Brand fired off a warning shot into the air to warn the suspects away - and it worked: the blacks in the vehicle fired off two shots towards Brand, jumped out and fled.
The Cronjé family's looted valuables were found dumped in a swamp near the homestead.
The alarm was raised with Bossies Community Justice, Hi-Tech Sekurity Nelspruit and the police. All arrived rapidly.
The Cronjé couple and their children have moved in with friend in Nelspruit and refuse to return to the smallholding where they had only lived for six months.
Meanwhile the police showed up at Brand's doorstep and arrested the hero of the hour claiming he was 'shooting with an unlicensed firearm.' They confiscated the small handgun
and he appeared in court Wednesday. and left out on bail. His 'case' will be heard 8 February.
"I tried to help my fellow human beings and now I am being turned in the criminal while the suspects are out walking around free men.
He suspects he and his family will be the next to be targetted: their dog was poisoned just two days before the attack on the Cronjé couple.
"The workers on this farm refuse to stay here, they are too terrified,' he said. The police confirmed that nobody was arrested for the attack on the Cronjé couple.
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-- Brand was arrested for 'owning an illegal firearm' when he fired off one warning shot against three black males were had attacked the young Cronjé couple across the street.
The three black males fired two shots at Brand after assaulting and tying up the Cronjé couple. The suspects have not been caught but two days after the incident the police showed up
at the doorstep of Mr Brand and dragged him into court for 'illegal firearms possession' of his legal .22 handgun.
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--- FIREARMS REGISTRY OFFICE IN DISARRAY
NOTE: (*Since the recent collapse of the Central Firearms Registry office in Pretoria, which has fallen into disarray due to gross mismanagement, it's impossible to determine whether any firearms are legal or not. The South African Police cannot prove whether any weapons are illegal. See story below).http://mg.co.za/article/2014-10-18-r400-million-firearms-control-system-in-shambles/
AND legal documentation of the illegal syndicate which sells illegal firearms licenses:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/193052/PrimaryDocuments/FirearmsRegistryDocuments.zip
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The attack started in broad daylight on 22 January 2015 when Deon Cronjé was inside their homestead just getting ready to step into the shower, wife Melissa was just relaxing on the stoep after feeding their one-month-old baby when three black males stormed towards her.
One brandished a machete and the other two had firearms. They forced the young mom into the house. Deon inside heard his wife screaming and when he opened the bathroom door he saw the three black thugs tying up his wife and their nine-year-old daughter.
Deon was plucked naked from the room - he had lost one arm in an accident years ago and reportedly the suspects 'struggled to tie him up' for this reason.
Meanwhile the Cronjé family's domestic worker, who was taking a shower in the rear bathroom of the house, heard the commotion and rushed to get help from the neighbours
across the street, Mr André Brand and his family.
Brand said he was inside his house visiting with friends when his housekeeper came running in to warn him of the attack going on across the street.
Brand took a .22 pistol from his room and hid behind a large white rock in front of his house - and saw the black suspects leave the Cronjé property with their car.
Just then one of the black thugs climbed from the Cronjé vehicle, cursing and shouting and running towards the Cronjé house. "It looked as if the man was going back to the Cronjé house and I suspected he wanted to back to go and hurt that family,' he said.
So Brand fired off a warning shot into the air to warn the suspects away - and it worked: the blacks in the vehicle fired off two shots towards Brand, jumped out and fled.
The Cronjé family's looted valuables were found dumped in a swamp near the homestead.
The alarm was raised with Bossies Community Justice, Hi-Tech Sekurity Nelspruit and the police. All arrived rapidly.
The Cronjé couple and their children have moved in with friend in Nelspruit and refuse to return to the smallholding where they had only lived for six months.
Meanwhile the police showed up at Brand's doorstep and arrested the hero of the hour claiming he was 'shooting with an unlicensed firearm.' They confiscated the small handgun
and he appeared in court Wednesday. and left out on bail. His 'case' will be heard 8 February.
"I tried to help my fellow human beings and now I am being turned in the criminal while the suspects are out walking around free men.
He suspects he and his family will be the next to be targetted: their dog was poisoned just two days before the attack on the Cronjé couple.
"The workers on this farm refuse to stay here, they are too terrified,' he said. The police confirmed that nobody was arrested for the attack on the Cronjé couple.
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Crimes of the South African Police Service
Police billing shambles
15 February 2012 at
14:00pm
Craig Dodds
Political Bureau
POLICE are being evicted from police stations because the rent
hasn’t been paid, services such as water and electricity are cut off for the
same reason, and police facilities, including barracks, are in a shocking state
of disrepair, Parliament has been told.
The police top brass were appearing before the police oversight
committee to present the results of an audit of all buildings leased on behalf
of the SAPS by the Department of Public Works.
It was done after it emerged in 2010 the police had no such
record, giving rise to the “mess” in leasing.
SAPS chief operations officer Lieutenant-General Bonang Mgwenya
wished those present a happy Valentine’s Day, but she had no bouquets to offer
Public Works as she and her team sketched a complete breakdown in the
department’s delivery on its mandate to procure and maintain property on their
behalf.
“We are continuously facing challenges with leased buildings…
We… are getting evicted in some of the leased buildings. One of the reasons
will be that (Public Works) will not have paid for the rental,” Mgwenya said.
Public Works had procured 1 365 properties for the SAPS, which
admitted paying inflated prices in many cases.
Mgwenya said the police would be unaware from month to month
which rentals had been paid, and would find out there was a problem only when
the landlord arrived to lock up the property.
The deputy national commissioner for physical resources
management, Lieutenant-General Leah Mofomme, said police had been evicted from
Erasmia police station after the landlord had taken Public Works to court and
won.
MPs were outraged, and baffled by the lack of interaction
between the two departments.
“It’s a shame to say the police get evicted, very shameful, to
say the least… These are the protectors of our democracy… They get evicted for
not paying rent,” said Cope’s Leonard Ramatlakane.
The DA’s Dianne Kohler Barnard said the evictions were “beyond
worry”, and that police living quarters were also “nothing more than slums”.
“Now I’m receiving reports that Public Works has decided to
upgrade a few of them and they simply tell SAPS members: ‘Go away.’ Where are
they supposed to go?”
In one Joburg barracks she had visited there had been “not a
single toilet with a door, and endless corridors that allegedly flood
regularly… It’s a death trap and not a single room had running water or a
toilet. I was ashamed that we had our members living in that place… it’s
replicated in every province we go to”.
The police officials said maintenance was the landlord’s
responsibility, but Public Works had told the police not to complain to
landlords, but to work through the department.
Mofomme confirmed that the SAPS had asked Public Works to be
allowed to take over payment of rates and electricity to avoid having services
cut for non-payment.
The police had found there were four contracts for which Public
Works had invoiced them where they did not occupy the properties.
The officials could also not assure MPs that all current leases
had been properly procured, saying Public Works did not offer this information.
“You are a law enforcement agency,” committee chairwoman Sindi
Chikunga said. “How could you not know that buildings you occupy were obtained
through a lawful process?”
Mgwenya put some of the blame for the leasing mess on the
previous management, saying none of the current team had been in top management
before the audit of 2010.
But Chikunga said
: “We’re not keen to accept that explanation because when you
leave the people that follow will be saying the same things about you.” – Additional
reporting by Sapa
Crimes of the South African Police Service
SAPS: R400
million firearms control system in shambles
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The police are under pressure to
sort out problems with a R400 million firearms control system. Groundup
reports.
In its successful bid for the
contract in 2003, Waymark proposed an IT system which would enable the police
to track firearms and identify the ownership, identity and history of a firearm
“anywhere anytime”. In addition to this “technical solution”, Waymark proposed
skills development to ensure that police personnel are trained to use the
system. Waymark’s tender estimated the system would cost R42 million.
The Firearms Control Act of 2000
requires that the National Police Commissioner establish a “Central Firearms
Register”. The deliverables expected from Waymark –a database and document
processing system to manage the firearms register– are noted in the contract
signed with the police and correspond closely to the legislated requirements
for the Central Firearms Register.
According to the Auditor-General’s
performance audit report for 2012/13, the contract, signed in September 2004,
set the price for the system at around R93 million. This is more than double
the estimate in the tender. The contract also set the deadline for the system
handover at 5 July 2006. But between March 2005 and February 2007, addenda to
the contract show that the deadline was pushed back multiple times. The cost of
the system also escalated to about R412 million, of which R343 million has been
paid according to the Auditor-General.
In 2012, the police suspended
dealings with Waymark and launched an internal investigation into the contract.
Yet it remains unclear whether this investigation was ever completed. The
reasons for the ballooning costs and delays associated with the contract also
remain a mystery. Last month, more than a year after Cape Town-based NGO
Ndifuna Ukwazi lodged a Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA)
application, the police handed over the contract documents for the development
of the firearms control system. But details of the additional costs have been
blanked out and some pages have been removed.
Read more……
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Constable, civilian arrested for rape
A 26-year-old
constable and a civilian appeared in the Vosloorus Magistrates Court on
Wednesday for the rape of a 19-year-old in Vosloorus.
According to Moses Dlamini, national spokesperson for the
Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), the suspects appeared on
charges of rape and pointing of a firearm.
The constable is stationed at the Elsburg SAPS.
“It is alleged that on March 29, at about 3am, the victim was
with her boyfriend when they were approached by a red Volkswagen Polo with two
occupants inside.
“The occupants of the Polo allegedly pointed a firearm at the
couple and demanded their cellphones,” says Dlamini.
He adds that the driver then told the boyfriend to go away and
the suspects drove away with the victim to Extension 28 in Vosloorus.
“After stopping in an open field, the victim was allegedly raped
by the civilian in the back of the vehicle while the policeman pointed the
firearm at her after which, the policeman raped her as well.”
The victim managed to take down the registration number of the
suspects’ vehicle.
Dalmini says that she was dropped off at a taxi rank and she
reported her ordeal to the police.
A case of rape was opened at Vosloorus SAPS.
The suspects were arrested by the police and the matter was taken
over by the IPID for investigation. More charges may be added.
Dlamini adds that the IPID has also made recommendation for the
constable to be charged departmentally.
Crimes of the South African Police Service
St Albans prison: Enter the era of SA’s torture prosecutions?
Carolyn Raphaely
02 Apr 2014 01:08
(South Africa)
South Africa
A recent prison-wide orgy of
mass-beatings, electric-shock, torture and assaults, involving 200 inmates of
Port Elizabeth’s St Albans prison, could lead to the first prosecutions in
terms of SA’s new torture legislation. By CAROLYN RAPHAELY.
The assaults and torture, which
allegedly occurred during a midnight search for contraband last month (2
March), included inmates being forced to lie naked on the ground in a long
human chain with their noses in the anus of the inmate in front of them.
This might mean that Department
of Correctional Services (DCS) Eastern Cape Regional Commissioner Nkosinathi
Breakfast, Area Commissioner Mandla Jam and about 50 members of DCS’ Emergency
Security Team (EST) involved in the search may be the first State officials to
be charged with torture in the new SA. Prior to the promulgation of The
Prevention and Combating of Torture of Persons Act in July last year, torture
was not a crime in SA.
“This is an opportunity to test
the new torture legislation and international criminal law applicable to
torture,” said Port Elizabeth human rights lawyer Egon Oswald, who is
representing more than 100 affected St Albans inmates in a criminal case, as well
as a civil claim for torture -related damages. Breakfast told the WJP that he
and Jam were both present in the prison during the “routine search operation.”
Read More……
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Crimes of the South African Police Service
#Phiyega probe: Top cop loses round one
04 May 2016 at 07:29am
By: TANKISO MAKHETHA
Credit: PRETORIA NEWS
Suspended national police
commissioner General Riah Phiyega leaving the SA Law Reform Commission offices
in Centurion on the first day of the Claassen Board of Inquiry into her fitness
to hold office. Picture: Oupa Mokoena
Pretoria - Legal teams of both suspended national police
commissioner General Riah Phiyega and evidence leaders stamped their authority
early on as the Claassen Board of Inquiry kicked off in Centurion on Tuesday.
The board is investigating Phiyega’s fitness to hold office, as
recommended by the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into the 2012 Marikana
massacre.
The first witnesses are due to take the stand on Wednesday
morning, but retired Judge Neels Claassen was called on to make two rulings on
Tuesday.
He ruled in favour of the evidence leaders on two preliminary
points raised by the top cop’s legal team.
Evidence leaders would be allowed to call witnesses who did not
testify at the Farlam commission. They could also use evidence that was not
utilised during the Farlam commission, he ruled.
This includes the letter written by Phiyega to President Jacob
Zuma criticising the commission’s findings on the role she had played on the
day of the massacre.
Phiyega’s counsel argued against a request by the evidence
leaders, led by advocate Ismail Jamie SC, to bring in more witnesses to
testify.
Jamie argued that the terms of reference of the inquiry needed
to be broadened. As such, he said evidence leaders would like to determine
whether they could recall witnesses who testified during the Farlam commission.
However, advocate William Mokhari SC, for Phiyega, countered
that this would extend the scope of the inquiry, and that the inquiry was not
about Phiyega’s fitness to hold office, but the findings made in Farlam
commission report.
“The evidence leaders are bound by the terms of reference which
established this inquiry and therefore are not permitted to call witnesses,”
Mokhari said.
He also argued that the evidence leaders should have returned to
Zuma if they wished to extend the scope of the inquiry.
“The manner in which the evidence leaders have presented their
argument is that you (Judge Claassen) must make your ruling in the abstract.
That they are entitled to call witnesses, but it can’t be,” Mokhari argued.
“They must be able to say we have the evidence of the following
people and we are asking for a ruling whether we can adduce that evidence
because there is an objection to that. They are not doing that,” he said.
But the judge said: “In my view, the concession made by Mr
Mokhari that evidence leaders would be entitled to call witnesses is a correct
concession. This inquiry is in a nature of a disciplinary inquiry, and in such
disciplinary proceedings witnesses will be called by employer and employee.”
Judge Claassen earlier said Mokhari made an allowance that
evidence leaders would be entitled to call witnesses.
In so doing, Judge Claassen said witnesses would have to give
testimonies that were within the scope of the inquiry and its objectives.
On the second point, Judge Claassen said representations by
Phiyega to Zuma following the Farlam commission had completed its task was
relevant to the inquiry after she attempted to expunge herself from wrongdoing.
“It would be absurd to suggest that her statement is irrelevant
to these proceedings.
“The evidence leaders would be entitled to refer to matters
which occurred after the (Marikana) commission,” Judge Claassen said.
The country’s top cop was suspended last year by Zuma after
allegations of misconduct contained in the Farlam commission report.
Zuma established the board of inquiry last year after the
commission headed by retired Judge Ian Farlam incriminated Phiyega and other
senior police officers in the killing of 34 mineworkers in August 16, 2012. The
commission investigated the deaths of 44 people who were killed during labour
unrest at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana in August 2012.
The evidence leaders are expected to call four witnesses when
the hearings resume on Wednesday.
The Farlam Commission had heard that police officers ordered
four mortuary vehicles to be on the hills at Marikana, hours before the
shootings.
tankiso.makhetha@inl.co.za
Pretoria News
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Man shot and killed: Vosman Update
Rubber bullets lay strewn in
front of Vosman Police Station, a silent witness to the drama that unfolded
over the weekend.
September 21, 2015
A man was shot dead and three others
injured when police allegedly fired at an angry crowd who voiced their frustration
with bribery.
This
tragedy unfolded in Vosman Hlanikahle Extension 1 on Sunday, September 20.
On Monday, September 21 community members went to Vosman Police Station to enquire about a policeman, who is accused of shooting the 28-year-old Isaac Tebele.
On Monday, September 21 community members went to Vosman Police Station to enquire about a policeman, who is accused of shooting the 28-year-old Isaac Tebele.
Sydwell
Khumalo, Criselda Mathabela and Agnes Mkwayi are protesting outside Vosman
Police Station following a shooting wherein one man was shot dead and three
others wounded on Sunday, September 20.
Tempers
again flared up when one of the policemen was seen leaving the police station
in full uniform, only minutes after the station commander, Brigadier
Makhosazana Kheswa, assured a delegation chosen by the community that the
policeman was not at work.
“The
station commander blatantly lied in our faces. We were told the officers were
suspended with immediate effect,” Mr Aubrey Mtsweni, from the ANC Youth League
said.
“When we took the matter up, the police chased us out of the gates firing rubber bullets,” Mtsweni said.
“When we took the matter up, the police chased us out of the gates firing rubber bullets,” Mtsweni said.
Read more……
Crimes of the South African Police Service
A Constable and a civilian arrested for rape and
pointing of firearm in Vosloorus, Gauteng
A Constable (26) and a
civilian are to appear in court on 02 April 2014 for the rape of a 19 year old
in Vosloorus, Gauteng. The suspects will appear at the Vosloorus Magistrates
Court on 02 April 2014 on charges of rape and pointing of a firearm. The
Constable is stationed as Elsburg SAPS.
It is alleged that on 29
March 2014 at about 03h00, the victim was with her boyfriend when they were
approached by a red VW Polo with two occupants inside. The occupants of the VW
Polo allegedly pointed the couple with a firearm and demanded their cell
phones. The driver then told the boyfriend to go away and the suspects drove
away with the victim to Extension 28 in Vosloorus. After stopping in an open
field, the victim was allegedly raped by the civilian in the back of the
vehicle while the policeman pointed her with a firearm after which the
policeman raped her as well. The victim managed to take down the registration number
of the suspects’ vehicle. She was dropped off at a taxi rank and she reported
her ordeal to the police. A case of rape was opened at Vosloorus SAPS.
The suspects were arrested
by the police and the matter was taken over by the IPID for investigation. More
charges may be added.
The IPID has also made recommendation for the Constable to be
charged departmentally.
Crimes of the South African Police Service
IPID probes 'bribery' at Seshego Police Station
Friday 11 September 2015 05:38
SABC
IPID says two female police officers
have pleaded guilty to making a rape docket disappear for a bribe of R1500
each.(SABC)
The
Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is calling on all victims of rape,
child abuse and domestic offences whose cases were investigated by the Seshego
Police Station in Polokwane to report back to the station and meet with the
station commander.
IPID says two female police officers have pleaded guilty to making a rape docket disappear for a bribe of R1500 each.
The victim was allegedly raped during a prayer session, by their colleague, who is also a priest.
IPID spokesperson Grace Langa says they want to re-open cases that were handled by the two police officers.
"We've just found out through our investigations that two police women were paid by their colleague R1 500 each to make the docket disappear and to make the victim sign a statement of withdrawal against the police officer. Sofia Legodi and Agnes Mokena are constables from Seshego Police Station. They took the victim to meet with the suspect police officer. They promised her
R50 000 and the victim refused R 50 000."
IPID says two female police officers have pleaded guilty to making a rape docket disappear for a bribe of R1500 each.
The victim was allegedly raped during a prayer session, by their colleague, who is also a priest.
IPID spokesperson Grace Langa says they want to re-open cases that were handled by the two police officers.
"We've just found out through our investigations that two police women were paid by their colleague R1 500 each to make the docket disappear and to make the victim sign a statement of withdrawal against the police officer. Sofia Legodi and Agnes Mokena are constables from Seshego Police Station. They took the victim to meet with the suspect police officer. They promised her
R50 000 and the victim refused R 50 000."
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Phiyega critics want a wider inquiry
Thursday 12 November 2015 19:08
Aldrin Sampear
Police Minister Nathi Nhleko's
reference group made both criminal and misconduct findings against Riah
Phiyega.(SABC)
Suspended police commissioner, Riah
Phiyega’s critics say the terms of reference of the presidential commission of
inquiry into her fitness to hold office, must be expanded to include the
charges contained in the police ministry report.
Police Minister Nathi Nhleko's reference group made both criminal and misconduct findings against the suspended national police commissioner.
Detailing damning findings against Phiyega, they include two criminal offences and four counts of misconduct. The ministerial reference group also found that she misled both Parliament and the High Court on the matter of suspended crime intelligence boss, Richard Mdluli.
Phiyega is also found guilty of defeating the ends of justice after tipping-off Western Cape Police Commissioner, Arno Lamoer, about an investigation against him.
However, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate insists that case is not prosecutable.
But the Police and Prisoners Civil Rights Union (Popcru) believes Phiyega is being targeted. Popcru’s Zizamele Cebekulu says Phiyega is not corrupt and that there are efforts to trying to find grounds to make her go.
Police Minister Nathi Nhleko's reference group made both criminal and misconduct findings against the suspended national police commissioner.
Detailing damning findings against Phiyega, they include two criminal offences and four counts of misconduct. The ministerial reference group also found that she misled both Parliament and the High Court on the matter of suspended crime intelligence boss, Richard Mdluli.
Phiyega is also found guilty of defeating the ends of justice after tipping-off Western Cape Police Commissioner, Arno Lamoer, about an investigation against him.
However, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate insists that case is not prosecutable.
But the Police and Prisoners Civil Rights Union (Popcru) believes Phiyega is being targeted. Popcru’s Zizamele Cebekulu says Phiyega is not corrupt and that there are efforts to trying to find grounds to make her go.
On Wednesday, Nhleko said a
Ministerial Reference Group has recommended that a board of inquiry, led by a
retired judge or senior advocate, be established against Phiyega
Among those calling for her head is
the South African Police Union (Sapu).
The commission appointed to probe Phiyega's conduct during the Marikana shootings is yet to get underway.
On Wednesday, Nhleko said a Ministerial Reference Group (MRG) has recommended that a board of inquiry, led by a retired judge or senior advocate, be established against Phiyega.
The MRG went across the country since July last year, investigating complaints and concerns against Phiyega. Among others, senior members were removed from their positions as deputy National Commissioners without being consulted, and given lower ranks.
The commission appointed to probe Phiyega's conduct during the Marikana shootings is yet to get underway.
On Wednesday, Nhleko said a Ministerial Reference Group (MRG) has recommended that a board of inquiry, led by a retired judge or senior advocate, be established against Phiyega.
The MRG went across the country since July last year, investigating complaints and concerns against Phiyega. Among others, senior members were removed from their positions as deputy National Commissioners without being consulted, and given lower ranks.
Crimes of the South African Police Service
Claims of torture, attacks by cops
By Mckeed Kotlolo. | Sep 27, 2010 |
SCORES
of community leaders and their families in the former KwaNdebele homeland in
Mpumalanga are living in fear and others have fled their homes, citing recent
police attacks against them.
CAPTION: BEREAVED: Betty Shabangu
The homes of numerous community
leaders in the Dr JS Moroka municipality in Siyabuswa were raided and their
houses damaged.
Victims of the violence include a
67-year-old granny, Betty Shabangu, and her "sickly" 19-year-old
granddaughter Nomsa Mahlangu.
They allegedly wet themselves when
they were suffocated with refuse bags, kicked, punched and electrocuted by
members of the Middelburg Serious and Violent Crime Unit, who were
interrogating them.
Some of the leaders claim they were
coerced into sign statements implicating executive mayor Ina Masombuka, popular
businessman Richard Vilakazi and Mpumalanga Premier David Mabuza in an arson
case.
The arson case is fromthe torching
of local municipal manager Monica Mathebela's Marabastad Section house on June
29 this year.
The house was allegedly set alight
after the community submitted a memorandum accusing the manager of corruption,
nepotism and financial mismanagement, and also calling for her immediate
suspension.
As a result, seven community leaders
were arrested in raids from July 21 to 23 by heavily armed police in convoys of
unmarked vehicles.
Mpumalanga police spokesperson
Captain Leonard Hlathi declined to comment and referred all enquiries to the
Independent Complaints Directorate, whose Moses Dlamini confirmed they were
handling the matter as investigations continued.
Those arrested and released after
paying R5000 bail each on Thursday are Dudu Mhlanga, 39, of Marothobolong -
released after two days; Joseph Shabangu; Dr JS Moroka Community Forum
chairperson Solly Mahlangu; Mpho Mahlangu; Paul Mthimunye and Alfred Skhosana,
ANC Kameel Rivier branch secretary.
Elijah Mashiloane was also released
after two days of alleged extreme torture. He was re-arrested on August 31 and
released on September 10, after being accused of armed robberies and the bombing
of ATMs.
Shabangu said police broke down
doors and windowpanes, "assaulted me and my two grandchildren, including
Nomsa, who was sick at the time and died a week later. My granddaughter died
hating the police."
Mashiloane and the rest of the
detainees described the line of interrogation as probably worse than the
apartheid-style torture.
On arrival at Middelburg SVC unit's
offices, their interrogators confessed that "we did not torch the
manager's house", but insisted "we implicate the local mayor, Papa Rich
and the premier as sponsors of the arson.
"When we refused, they took us
alone for interrogation. I heard strong men like Alfred screaming and there was
silence in between."
Crimes of the South African Police Service
‘I thought cops would kill me’
17 March 2016 at
17:44pm
By: Chris Ndaliso
Sgcino Khuzwayo says he was
tortured by plain-clothed police at his home on Sunday evening. The cut above
the eye was caused by the butt of a gun. Picture: Supplied
Durban - An Umgababa man, who lost a brother to the Glebelands
killings, says he was tortured by police for 45 minutes this week while his
mother and two nieces heard his anguished cries from a room next door.
Sgcino Khuzwayo, 35, who suffered a cut above the eye, a bruised
face and wrist, said the incident had left his mother and nieces traumatised,
and him fearful for his life.
In November, his brother, Frank, was shot dead in the Glebelands
Hostel.
He said that on Sunday, five plain-clothed policemen arrived at
his home and questioned him about guns his brother apparently owned.
“Two of the men took me to my room and closed the door, while
others guarded my mother and two nieces aged 11 and 15.”
“Inside the room, the men tied my hands behind my back and
suffocated me with a plastic bag. All the time they were saying they won’t stop
torturing until I give them the guns,” Khuzwayo said.
He said when he tried to lift himself up one of them hit him
with the butt of a gun.
Pictures sent to the Daily News show his bruised face and wrist,
and a cut above the eye.
Khuzwayo in the end confessed to keeping a gun at his friend’s
place. “That was a false confession because I needed them to stop. I thought
they were going to kill me if I didn’t say what they wanted to hear.
“They took me to the friend’s place, but by God’s grace he was
not home. They searched the house and having found nothing, they told me they
will force the truth out of me.”
“As we walked out the house I decided to make a break and free
myself from these men. As I was running away they fired shots at me, but they
missed,” he said.
He had since returned home and said he had not heard from the
police since.
Although the vehicle the police were driving was unmarked, the
Daily News traced it through its registration plate to the police Intervention
Unit in Ashwood, Pinetown.
Khuzwayo said he had thought torturing of crime suspects was “a
thing of the past”.
“Most painful is that in November we buried my older brother and
there has been no progress in the investigation into his death at Glebelands.”
His 68-year-old asthmatic mother, Ntombi, said during the
torture she was held by one man in the kitchen.
She said she had difficulty breathing and when she tried to
leave the room, the man stopped her. It was only when her chest was heaving
loudly that the man allowed a child to bring an asthma pump.
“I asked these men what were they looking for and they said they
were sent from Glebelands to come and get guns from my son. All this time I
could hear my child crying in the room.”
“I asked this man to let me leave the house, and once they are
done killing my child, they can call me back in. I couldn’t stand what these
men were doing to my family just a few months after burying my older son,” she
said.
She said it left her traumatised.
Her house is on the roadside so when with cars passing at night,
she finds it difficult to fall asleep because she is haunted by memories of the
Sunday evening trauma.
Vanessa Burger, independent community activist for human rights
and social justice, said it was disturbing for people to be tortured
“apartheid-style” by police.
“The unidentified officers terrified the family’s elderly mother
when they assaulted her son and threatened family members. These men had no
search or arrest warrant, and no identification.”
“They continued torturing the man for about 45 minutes, before
they forced a so-called confession from him. It must be remembered that when
repeatedly deprived of oxygen while being beaten savagely about the head, a
confession to absolutely anything will result,” Burger said.
KwaZulu-Natal police spokesman Major Thulani Zwane said they
were not aware of the incident and urged the victims to contact the station
commander at their nearest police station, and to report the matter to the
Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid).
Ipid spokesman, Robbie Raburabu, said the Khuzwayo family needed
to report the incident to their nearest Ipid office. He also requested the
victims’ contact details.
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