Monday, December 1, 2014
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Police
excuse themselves from pursuit of burglars
KNYSNA
NEWS - The latest crime statistics suggest that criminals are on the loose, but
despite this worrying fact a Knysna resident, Cassie Share, had to deal with
alleged police incompetency last week.
On Tuesday, September 23 between 15:00 and 16:00 Share saw two unknown individuals breaking into a home on Thesen Hill and running away with the stolen goods. Share told the Knysna-Plett Herald he happened to know the home owner, and contacted him. Then he tried to track down the criminals. "I thought luck was on my side when a police vehicle came my way. I stopped and told them what was happening. I also showed them where the housebreakers were, only to hear the one policeman say: 'Sorry, can't help you. We have prisoners in the back'."
Dumbfounded at their response, but still desperate to catch the criminals, hope flickered again when he saw a second police vehicle, this time the Tsitsikama Dog Unit.
Share said he stopped them too, just to hear: "Sorry, we can't interfere. This isn't our area." With mounting frustration, Share managed to stop a third police van – this one had two ladies and two children in the front. According to Share they were clearly on their way to Concordia, but he was told, "Sorry, we can't help you. We are on our way to Sedgefield."
Spokesperson for the Southern Cape Police, Captain Malcolm Pojie, was asked for comment. He said it is essential that the police are always professional and deliver effective service to the community. "Despite the fact that different units and vehicles are deployed in different areas, they are not bound to police only in that specific area." Pojie said the allegations of police incompetency will be investigated. On Tuesday, October 7, Pojie said, "The investigation is in a very sensitive stage." He explained that he could not comment since the investigation into allegations that police refused to assist when the complainant approached them for help, was an internal, departmental matter.
Pojie urged any eyewitnesses to visit the Knysna Police Station and compile an affidavit to help them with the investigation.
• In another incident the Knysna Police opened a case of housebreaking and theft following an alleged incident in Paradise, Knysna on Saturday, September 27. It is alleged that the owner left his residence in Loerie Street at about 19:30 on Friday, September 26. Upon his return the following morning he discovered that his house had been burgled. The suspect(s) broke a window to gain entry to the premises and stole a Sony television, a DSTV decoder as well as personal items. No arrest has been made yet. Investigation continues. Anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of the perpetrator(s) is urged to contact the investigation officer, Sergeant Mario Uithaler, at 044 302 6652.
'We bring you the latest Knysna, Garden Route news'
On Tuesday, September 23 between 15:00 and 16:00 Share saw two unknown individuals breaking into a home on Thesen Hill and running away with the stolen goods. Share told the Knysna-Plett Herald he happened to know the home owner, and contacted him. Then he tried to track down the criminals. "I thought luck was on my side when a police vehicle came my way. I stopped and told them what was happening. I also showed them where the housebreakers were, only to hear the one policeman say: 'Sorry, can't help you. We have prisoners in the back'."
Dumbfounded at their response, but still desperate to catch the criminals, hope flickered again when he saw a second police vehicle, this time the Tsitsikama Dog Unit.
Share said he stopped them too, just to hear: "Sorry, we can't interfere. This isn't our area." With mounting frustration, Share managed to stop a third police van – this one had two ladies and two children in the front. According to Share they were clearly on their way to Concordia, but he was told, "Sorry, we can't help you. We are on our way to Sedgefield."
Spokesperson for the Southern Cape Police, Captain Malcolm Pojie, was asked for comment. He said it is essential that the police are always professional and deliver effective service to the community. "Despite the fact that different units and vehicles are deployed in different areas, they are not bound to police only in that specific area." Pojie said the allegations of police incompetency will be investigated. On Tuesday, October 7, Pojie said, "The investigation is in a very sensitive stage." He explained that he could not comment since the investigation into allegations that police refused to assist when the complainant approached them for help, was an internal, departmental matter.
Pojie urged any eyewitnesses to visit the Knysna Police Station and compile an affidavit to help them with the investigation.
• In another incident the Knysna Police opened a case of housebreaking and theft following an alleged incident in Paradise, Knysna on Saturday, September 27. It is alleged that the owner left his residence in Loerie Street at about 19:30 on Friday, September 26. Upon his return the following morning he discovered that his house had been burgled. The suspect(s) broke a window to gain entry to the premises and stole a Sony television, a DSTV decoder as well as personal items. No arrest has been made yet. Investigation continues. Anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of the perpetrator(s) is urged to contact the investigation officer, Sergeant Mario Uithaler, at 044 302 6652.
'We bring you the latest Knysna, Garden Route news'
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Mike Wood’s article about 3
unfit officers losing a suspect opposite
the Knysna police station prompts me to emphasise his point.
This photo features an
officer from the Knysna Traffic Department on the corner of Grey Street. She
was walking incredibly slowly down the street when i first noticed her.
I don’t believe in being
cruel regards weight. For that reason, i’ve cut off the face of the lady
involved here. People should live their lives they want to. However, the
exception should be for the fitness levels of those in uniform whose job it is
to represent the law.
I don’t believe an
individual should be targeted, and i will be saddened if her fellow officers
rag her, but Knysna Municipality should be questioning the heads of Local Law
Enforcement, Traffic and the SAPS regards their health policy, rules and
regulations… and enforcement of such.
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Letter
to Colonel Atwell Metu (Knysna Station Commander)
Yesterday, i sent this letter to Colonel Atwell
Metu and Sergeant Chris Spies.
Morning, Colonel Atwell Metu.
It was disturbing to hear that policemen under your command were
searching for me, not for long awaited communication or questions regards a
case but because they were angry at my blogging. They were likely low-rung as
many higher officers would not have gotten the wrong address (i’m too well
known to many at the station).
It’s notable that i’ve made several requests to see you in recent months
yet none have materialised. Please meet me in a neutral venue. I’m happy to
meet one on one but we can also avoid any misunderstanding if we each bring a
witness.
You should want to meet out of care for OUR Knysna – even a critic such
as myself is suppose to fall under your protection.
Please start working with the public, not against us. This is your home
too. Let’s strive towards a safer future for us all.
Sergeant Chris Spies, your spokesman, will have my contact details.
Thank you.
PS: So there’s a record, i’ve posted this on Facebook and sent it to the
KPH and a lawyer.
There was no response so i sent ansms this morning saying:
“”Atwell Metu, Mike Hampton here. You have yet to respond to my email.
I’d much prefer us being friendly and professional. Let’s meet today. Please email
or sms me before 8am. I state those forms of communication so that there’s a
record. I’m available from 11am today. Thank you. PS: I’ve also sent this sms
to Sergeant Chris Spies.”
That time wasn’t too early as shift change is early.
At 8.30am on Facebook i posted:
“I contact you, Colonel Atwell Metu, the Knysna Station Commander. I do
so publicly as there has been no response from you or your spokesperson,
Sergeant Chris Spies. I wish to have a meeting with you at at a neutral venue
to discuss several important issues regarding Knysna. One of those issues will
be my own safety from the SAPS, another a possible murder. Do you believe in
LAW and JUSTICE? Do you believe that you serve KNYSNA? Do you believe that good
cops arrest bad cops? Or do you believe that you serve the SAPS before all of
those? What do YOU believe? Hopefully you will tell me over a friendly cup of
coffee.”
Thank you,
Mike Hampton
Mike Hampton
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"Rapes accounted for just under 20
of the 100 incidents. In almost every incident the police officer sought to use
his official status to force the women in question to submit to his sexual
demands. In certain cases women were raped after being arrested or while in
police custody." - A 2011 research paper by the South African Institute of
Race Relations
https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-African-Police-Are-Rapists/208430035905750
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Just on the last point... the research
stopped after gathering evidence of 100 crimes committed by police from 2009 to
2010 - not all the crimes police had committed -there were too many! So 20% of
the FIRST 100 cases studied were rapes. That means there are far more than 20
rapes of innocent women by the police reported from just 2009 to 2010!!!
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Another police rape in Knysnain 2010. On
9 February 2010, the Cape Times reported that a 32-year-old guest house owner
had accused a Knysna policeman of raping her while his colleague held her down.
The woman had been to a restaurant to celebrate her birthday. She later left
the restaurant. When she saw a police car along the main road towards
Plettenberg Bay, she asked for a lift home. The two officers in the car raped
her.
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South Africans have become accustomed to
media reports alleging involvement of policemen in serious crimes. The
Institute of Race Relations has become increasingly concerned at the number and
nature of these reports. To determine the scale of the problem, the Institute
assigned a researcher to source as much information as possible on the
involvement of police officers in committing crime.
The re...sults were alarming.
The Institute consulted journalists, media reports, and information from the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) . Within a week, a list of over 100 separate incidents alleging and/or confirming the police’s involvement in serious crimes was drawn up.
The Institute’s researchers stopped looking for more incidents after compiling this list of the first 100. Without exception, the 100 incidents identified in this report are related to very serious, often violent, pre-mediated criminal behaviour. These included RAPES, MURDERS, ATM bombings, armed robberies, house robberies, and serious assaults. See More
The re...sults were alarming.
The Institute consulted journalists, media reports, and information from the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) . Within a week, a list of over 100 separate incidents alleging and/or confirming the police’s involvement in serious crimes was drawn up.
The Institute’s researchers stopped looking for more incidents after compiling this list of the first 100. Without exception, the 100 incidents identified in this report are related to very serious, often violent, pre-mediated criminal behaviour. These included RAPES, MURDERS, ATM bombings, armed robberies, house robberies, and serious assaults. See More
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I have just been emailed a very sobering
report: The involvement of the South African Police Force in serious and
violent crime in South Africa. A research paper by the Unit for Risk Analysis
South African Institute of Race Relations
February 2011
February 2011
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Just posted these to the CNN newsroom on
Twitter:
@CNNnewsroom Women are living in fear of the police raping them in Johannesburg South Africa on.fb.me/vqsvyc
7 seconds ago
@CNNnewsroom Please report on South African police raping women ...in Johannesburg! on.fb.me/vqsvyc
33 seconds ago
@cnni South African women are living in fear of the police on.fb.me/vqsvyc
21 seconds ago
»
@cnni Please report on women being raped by police in South Africa,in Johannesburg, in good suburbs, at night! on.fb.me/vqsvyc
2 minutes ago See More
@CNNnewsroom Women are living in fear of the police raping them in Johannesburg South Africa on.fb.me/vqsvyc
7 seconds ago
@CNNnewsroom Please report on South African police raping women ...in Johannesburg! on.fb.me/vqsvyc
33 seconds ago
@cnni South African women are living in fear of the police on.fb.me/vqsvyc
21 seconds ago
»
@cnni Please report on women being raped by police in South Africa,in Johannesburg, in good suburbs, at night! on.fb.me/vqsvyc
2 minutes ago See More
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Polisielede van Knysnavoorná man se dood
Tweepolisiebeamptesen ’n polisiereservis van hier is in hegtenisgeneemnadat ’n verdagte in aanhoudinggesterf het.
Die spanning was gistertasbaar in die landdroshofhierwaar twee van die drievlugtigvoorlanddros L.C. Ndomoverskyn het.
Talle van hulkollegas het die hofverrigtingesaam met familieledegevolg.
Twee manlike polisielede is Woensdag...aanden ’n reservisgisteroggend in hegtenisgeneem in verband met die dood van mnr. Tom Meyer van Rheenendal.
Besonderhede was gisterskraps. Nie die staat of die verdediging het teen gistermiddag die dossier onderoëgehadnie.
Meyer is die naweek in Rheenendalweens die besit van dwelms in hegtenisgeneem.
Meyer het konst. Christopher Moos (beskuldigde 1) nabewering met ’n mes in die arm gesteektydens ’n worstelingwatontstaan het toe eersgenoemdehomnabeweringteëgesit het.
Beskuldigde 2 (wie se naamniegenoem mag word nieomdathy in die hospitaal was enniekonverskynnie) enbeskuldigde 3, reserviskonst. Clint van Rooyen, het Moos nabeweringgehelp om Meyer by die polisiekantoorhieragteruit die polisievoertuigtelaai.
Beskuldigde 2 het Woensdagaandnásyinhegtenisneming in die polisiesellesiekgeworden is in die hospitaalhieropgeneem.
Hy was gister nog in afsonderingenonderpolisiebewaking in die hospitaal.
Mnr. DaanDerksen, watvirbeskuldigde 2 verskyn, het versoekdat die saak tot 11 Maartuitgestel word vir ’n borgtogaansoek.
Derksen het die versoekooknamensmnr. John Gillespie, watvir Moos optree, gerig. Gillespie was elders besig met werksaangeleenthede.
Van Rooyen het gisteromregshulpaansoekgedoen. Me. HenriëtteBreedtklaaannamens die staat.
Omdatpolisieledebetrokke is, word die saakdeur die OnafhanklikeKlagtedirektoraatonderleiding van mnr. Gavin Meyer ondersoek. Die twee beskuldigdesbly in aanhouding in die gevangenishier. Dit was gisternieduidelikwanneerbeskuldigde 2 uit die hospitaalontslaansal word nie.
Tweepolisiebeamptesen ’n polisiereservis van hier is in hegtenisgeneemnadat ’n verdagte in aanhoudinggesterf het.
Die spanning was gistertasbaar in die landdroshofhierwaar twee van die drievlugtigvoorlanddros L.C. Ndomoverskyn het.
Talle van hulkollegas het die hofverrigtingesaam met familieledegevolg.
Twee manlike polisielede is Woensdag...aanden ’n reservisgisteroggend in hegtenisgeneem in verband met die dood van mnr. Tom Meyer van Rheenendal.
Besonderhede was gisterskraps. Nie die staat of die verdediging het teen gistermiddag die dossier onderoëgehadnie.
Meyer is die naweek in Rheenendalweens die besit van dwelms in hegtenisgeneem.
Meyer het konst. Christopher Moos (beskuldigde 1) nabewering met ’n mes in die arm gesteektydens ’n worstelingwatontstaan het toe eersgenoemdehomnabeweringteëgesit het.
Beskuldigde 2 (wie se naamniegenoem mag word nieomdathy in die hospitaal was enniekonverskynnie) enbeskuldigde 3, reserviskonst. Clint van Rooyen, het Moos nabeweringgehelp om Meyer by die polisiekantoorhieragteruit die polisievoertuigtelaai.
Beskuldigde 2 het Woensdagaandnásyinhegtenisneming in die polisiesellesiekgeworden is in die hospitaalhieropgeneem.
Hy was gister nog in afsonderingenonderpolisiebewaking in die hospitaal.
Mnr. DaanDerksen, watvirbeskuldigde 2 verskyn, het versoekdat die saak tot 11 Maartuitgestel word vir ’n borgtogaansoek.
Derksen het die versoekooknamensmnr. John Gillespie, watvir Moos optree, gerig. Gillespie was elders besig met werksaangeleenthede.
Van Rooyen het gisteromregshulpaansoekgedoen. Me. HenriëtteBreedtklaaannamens die staat.
Omdatpolisieledebetrokke is, word die saakdeur die OnafhanklikeKlagtedirektoraatonderleiding van mnr. Gavin Meyer ondersoek. Die twee beskuldigdesbly in aanhouding in die gevangenishier. Dit was gisternieduidelikwanneerbeskuldigde 2 uit die hospitaalontslaansal word nie.
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Drug
Dealers Tipped Off by Knysna SAPS?
Some of the vehicles hid
around the corner in Rawson’s Street
There
will no chance at defeating crime in Knysna until the SAPS roots out corruption
in its ranks. There have only been two times that i haven’t seen the heavy drug
dealers in Grey Street and both times that was because the cops were about to
raid.
Only half
an hour earlier, i saw the dealers having a merry conversation and blocking the
pavement as normal but then they were suddenly gone.
Good cops
arrest bad cops – that should become the Knysna SAPS’ motto!
Later
that afternoon, the cops were back to check the Rastas fruit stands for dagga,
undoubtedly hoping to increase their drug arrest statistics whilst doing
nothing to stop real drugs in Knysna.
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Captain
Malcolm Pojie is a Liar
Captain Malcolm
Pojie
I was walking to court yesterday when i saw Detective Warrant Officer
Johan Burmeister on the balcony of our police station in Main Street. I assume
that it was his first day back in the loving arms of the Knysna SAPS after their attempt to frame him. Sincerely wishing him a peaceful, re-entry and
welcome by, at least, some of his fellow cops.
Such i pity that earlier that morning i’d read that the SAPS had decided
that the words of magistrates don’t mean anything i.e. the Knysna-Plett Herald
reported that SAPS spokesperson, Captain Malcolm Pojie, stated that the court
documents from Burmeister’s trial had been studied and that “no grounds nor
evidence was found that members had lied under oath.” A helluva odd think
to say since the court records will show exactly that.
Coincidentally, a reporter from a bigger newspaper phoned me later,
asking why the police would so blatantly lie? How does one answer that in South
Africa?
Captain Malcolm Pojie is a liar and it’s obvious that the bosses who instruct him have no respect for
the courts, justice and Magistrate Derek Torlage who presided over the
Burmeister case. There is no honour in a policeman whose job is to honestly
communicate with us, whom he is suppose to serve, but instead decides to be a
tragic salesman marketing us a faulty product we don’t want.
This case wasn’t only about Burmeister. It was about the health of
Knysna, our town whose crime rate has tripled.
We want truth without the cover-up. We want the police who lied to be
punished. We want to know that we can rely on the police in Knysna to do the
right thing. We don’t want to be scared of them anymore!
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In this Police State we find ourselves in, needing protection from both
the violent criminal drug addicts AS WELL AS the SAPS and other 'law enforcement
officers':
Please add this number as a Whatsapp contact, so that you can contact them should you find yourself being arrested illegally, or on the receiving end of Police brutality.
“0824430098”
http://www.eblockwatch.co.za/index.php?view=missing&id=382
Please add this number as a Whatsapp contact, so that you can contact them should you find yourself being arrested illegally, or on the receiving end of Police brutality.
“0824430098”
http://www.eblockwatch.co.za/index.php?view=missing&id=382
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Never mind fitness and obesity, many cops can’t drive or even shoot
straight
October 15 2012 at 09:00am
.
Wendy Jasson da Costa and KaminiPadayacheE
THEY can’t run, they can’t drive and apparently
some can’t shoot either.
Many of the men and women in blue who signed up to
serve and protect appear to be struggling to fulfil their mandate because
they’re unfit, don’t have a driver’s licence and can’t shoot straight.
Already condemned for being too portly to give
chase on foot, there’s a slim chance some police officers can even drive after
a criminal.
Police minister NathiMthethwa recently revealed
that “… 16 594 officials are not in possession of a valid driver’s licence”.
The number was in a reply to a written
parliamentary question and was released last week.
In response, DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard said, as
of May 2012, the SAPS had 157 380 operational members.
What the minister’s figure shows, she said, “is
that 10 percent of these members always have to ride shotgun”. But Mthethwa’s
spokesman, ZweliMnisi, argued that each person who entered the force was chosen
on merit based on their skills.
“When you want someone on board and they meet four
of the five competencies, there is no reason not to take them,” he said.
The fight against crime was not being hampered by
the officers who did not have licences as many of them did jobs which did not
require them to drive, he said. Besides, the figure included police reservists.
Kohler Barnard said it meant police officers, who
could have been on the road chasing criminals, were stuck behind their desks
because they did not have licences. It probably also meant station commanders
had to roster people according to what they could and could not do, she said.
Kohler Barnard has also asked Mthethwa to explain
to parliament why officers were failing gun competency tests and others had
failed to complete the training. “SAPS members should not be endangering the
lives of others and adding to the problem by carrying guns when they were
clearly not fit to do so,” she said.
Eearlier this year it emerged that more then 6 000
officers failed their gun competency tests and 20 000 others had yet to finish
their weapons training.
Mnisi said he could not comment on what had
happened to the officers who had failed the gun test and how many had now
completed training, as these were “operational issues”. Questions sent to the
office of the national commissioner were also not answered. Institute of
Security Studies senior researcher, Johan Burger, said officers who could not
drive should not be hired.
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It's on a need to know basis
Damning New Marikana
Footage Further Implicates Police in Massacre
onOctober 21, 2013
Damning new footage uncovered by the Marikana Support Committee’s Rehad
Desai is, according to the filmmaker activist, set to further implicate the
South African Police Service in the deaths of 34 miners at Lonmin’sMarikana
mine on August 16 last year.
On Monday during a screening of the new footage at the Bioscope
Independent Cinema in Johannesburg, Desai, who is making a film about last
year’s strike at Marikana, alleged the new evidence confirmed “police told lies
about their role in the killings at Marikana” and called on the National
Prosecuting Authority to charge them with murder.The month-long strike at
Marikana claimed at least 44 lives.
Desai said he had uncovered the material in the course of conducting
research for his film and that some of the new evidence had been “partially”
submitted to the Farlam Commission of Inquiry “as part of exhibit AAA”. He said
he had spent months scouring the footage.
The footage, previously unseen by the public, first shows miners peacefully
moving off the koppie towards the Wonderkop informal settlement in the presence
of police and army armoured vehicles. According to Desai, it appears as though
the leaders of the strike, including Mgcineni “Mambush” Noki, commonly known as
the Man in the Green Blanket, were the first to leave the koppie.
Others followed, moving slowly and in an apparently unthreatening
manner. Then, it seems, Nyalas and other armoured vehicles herded the miners
away from the direction of the informal settlement and towards a phalanx of
Tactical Response Team policemen.
The footage previously made public is from these policemen’s view.
Vitally, from this new camera angle, one can see police firing what appears to
be birdshot from between the Nyalas at the corralled miners. Teargas also
appears to have been fired.
The footage shows that at this point the miners were still moving
slowly, crouching and attempting to avoid being hit. It is at this pivotal
moment that the volley of live ammunition commonly witnessed in footage so far
made public, can be heard.
Desai said: “The police have always insisted that officers spontaneously
used their firearms in the face of an alleged imminent attack by miners that
jeopardised police officers.” He told The Con this official line was
consistently advanced by the police’s senior counsel, Ishmael Semenya, at the
Farlam Commission, but that the new footage “put paid” to that argument and was
more suggestive of premeditated action on the part of the police.
Former state intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils, who was present at
the screening, said the footage made it “very clear” that the miners were
“terrified” after being shot at with “buckshot” and that “no one is drunk on
muthi or mad [as hypothesised by police and leaders from government and the
National Union of Mineworkers in statements after the massacre]. They are
walking in a very orderly way coming past the Nyalas when the police start
pumping buckshot at them.”
Desai also noted that the new footage shows “the police taking out their
pistols from their holsters well before the alleged attack and before the
miners arrived on the scene”. He also pointed out “that firearms can be heard
to be ‘cocked’ on four occasions, and on two of these occasions can be seen and
heard on the footage”. This, said Desai, was against the police’s standing
orders, which stated explicitly that guns should be drawn only in the case of
“imminent danger”.
Standing order 262 prohibits the use of live ammunition in events like
Marikana, its further stipulates that reasonable and minimum force can be used
but on the instruction of a commander. The standing order allows police to
either contain or disperse a crowd in such circumstances but does not give
detail on the measures allowed for dispersal.
“Before the miners reached the koppie where they were killed, they were
walking relatively slowly, not charging or attacking the police as alleged,”
observed Desai. “The miners were peacefully leaving the mountain at Marikana
shortly before they were attacked by police.”
According to Desai, this latest evidence adds to the mounting case
against the police’s actions on August 16 2012 and the bad faith with which
they have apparently approached the Farlam Commission. Last month, The Con
revealed that police allegedly tampered with video evidence by apparently
splicing together footage taken in the days preceding August 16 to create the
impression that miners had agreed to attack police.
Question marks also hang over the veracity of the police’s plan to deal
with the miners on August 16 last year. Experts are currently clarifying
whether the document had not been concocted weeks after the massacre.
Last week, the Farlam Commission heard evidence that police had ordered
four mortuary vehicles from the Phokeng mortuary before 8.30am on the morning
of August 16 – in apparent anticipation of the bloodletting that was to follow.
When questioning Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Scott who was responsible for
the police plan, the commission’s evidence leader Matthew Chaskalson SC noted
that police colonels had made the call because they “anticipated that there may
be people killed in the process of closing down the miners”.
The mortuary had only sent one van and Chaskalson had questioned Scott
on whether he knew what capacity the vehicles had and whether he knew the
officers who had ordered the vehicles. Scott answered the first question in the
negative but confirmed that he knew one of the two policemen mentioned.
Chaskalson will continue questioning Scott, who was instrumental in
drawing up the police’s plan used at Marikana, when the Commission reconvenes
on October 23. On behalf of the Marikana Support Campaign, Desai called on the
National Director of Public Prosecutions to withdraw charges laid against the
270 arrested and injured miners and, instead, to charge the police officers
present on August 16 with murder.
Main Picture: A screen grab from new footage released on October 21 that shows police
cocking guns in contravention of Standing Orders on crowd control, well before
the miners approach them. Filmmaker Rehad Desai has, who uncovered the new
footage, has alleged that the police action in this footage further implicate
them in the premeditated murder of 34v miners at Lonmin’sMarikana mine last
year and is contrary to the police version that they had killed in
self-defense.
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Bizos criticises Marikana police
George
Bizos says some senior police officers were deliberately absent from the scene
to avoid blame.
A
screengrab of cellphone footage taken from the Marikana massacre.
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more…..
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National
International police expert
criticisesMarikana operation
27 Jun
2014 13:44
An
international policing expert, Gary White, says there were major problems with
Marikana's planning, intelligence, and command and control.
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more…..
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Published in The on 17 Mar 2014
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Oscar Pistorius trial and Marikana inquiry
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Police colonel hijacked
among shacks
By Daily Dispatch on
September 9, 2014 in
A SENIOR crime intelligence officer was hijacked, robbed and assaulted
by three men in East London on Sunday night.
Colonel BonganiMaqashalala, one of the most senior policeman in the
Eastern Cape Crime Intelligence Division, was driving in the AmagaliAbomvu
informal settlement near the East London Airport when the thugs struck. The
incident occurred after 7pm.
BonganiMaqashalala, one of the most senior policeman in the Eastern Cape
Crime Intelligence Division was hijacked, robbed and assaulted by three men in
East London.
A police officer who was at the scene of the crime and spoke to the
Daily Dispatch on condition of anonymity said the colonel had gone to the
informal settlement to fetch his gardener when he got lost and started asking
for directions.
“As he was busy talking to locals there, three men appeared from the
dark carrying guns.
They started pointing their firearms at the colonel and started bashing
him with the weapons,” said the officer.
He said the robbers took the officer’s state firearm and demanded his
wallet.
“They then took him to the bushes where they tied him up. One of the
suspects asked for the card pin and went to the Greenfields shopping centre
where he withdrew a maximum amount of R3000 from officer’s account.
“The suspect later returned and handed over the card and the vehicle to
the officer.
The officer said the colonel went to Fleet Street police station to
report the matter.
“All big guns from Organised Crimes Unit in East London rushed to Fleet
Street upon hearing the news to console the officer.
“They then summoned members of the East London Flying Squad and Tactical
Response Team to go hunt the suspects,” said the officer. He said when the
units arrived at the informal settlement they quickly went to a local tavern
and shut it down.
“The tavern was filled to capacity and everyone was made to lie down as
the members continued searching for the colonel’s firearm and money.
“He arrived and we conducted an identity parade which came out negative,
the suspects were not there,” he said.
The officer said Maqashalala was then escorted to an unidentified East
London hospital where he was treated and discharged.
His phone was off yesterday when contacted for comment.
Provincial police spokeswoman Brigadier Marinda Mills confirmed the
hijacking and said a case of armed robbery was registered at the Fleet Street
police station. There had been no arrests. — zwangam@dispatch.co.za
Crimes of the South African Police Service
On 30th December 2009, the Independent
Online reported the appearance in court of a policeman on rape charges. The
policeman, stationed at Jansenville Police Station in the Eastern Cape, raped a
15-year-old girl.
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Crimes of the South African Police Service
On 24 November 2009, the Independent
Online reported the appearance of a policeman accused of rape. The officer (40)
was based at Mthatha Central Police
Station in the Eastern Cape. He allegedly took a woman prisoner awaiting trial out of hercell and raped her in one of the offices at the police station.
Station in the Eastern Cape. He allegedly took a woman prisoner awaiting trial out of hercell and raped her in one of the offices at the police station.
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Crimes of the South African Police Service
On 10th November 2009, the Pretoria News
reported an incident in which a woman was raped by a police officer in
Rustenburg, North West, on 29th September 2009. The policeman was arrested
along with his three colleagues three weeks following the start of an ICD
investigation. The 29-year-old woman was arrested on charges of stealing
fishing rods. The charges were dropped the following morning at th...e
Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court. Then two of her female cellmates were
transferred to another police station, leaving her alone. When she
asked to go to the toilet at around 8pm, a policeman went into her cell and raped her. She laid a charge at Tlhabane Police Station in Rustenburg but could not get help when she revealed that the accused was a police officer. See More
asked to go to the toilet at around 8pm, a policeman went into her cell and raped her. She laid a charge at Tlhabane Police Station in Rustenburg but could not get help when she revealed that the accused was a police officer. See More
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