This article, like the other reports, with the support of criminologists on increasing community frustration with rampant crime and ineffective policing that leads them to take the law into their own hands. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Brutality prevails in Khutsong when hope is lost (Khutsong vigilante killings continued)
Community killings where police seen as unwilling to act against alleged criminals
Khutsong vigilante justice where police leave a vacuum
Clearly the killing of alleged gang members by members of the Khutsong community where the police failed to defend them, points to a wider problem of governability. Continue reading
Injections and shock treatment administered in privatised prison
Court action for access to Nkandla documents, allegedly illegally withheld from public
Expert evidence on police shootings in Marikana after ceasefire is called
Privatised prisons costly and effectiveness in doubt
Legal Aid SA to appeal ruling on Marikana massacre funding.
This ought not to be legal action taken by Legal Aid SA. Continue reading
Verification process for traders removed from inner city
Maybe I am hypercritical but some of the statements of officials sound rather arrogant
Public Protector may be clearing Zuma over Nkandla expenditure
In the course of a report which indicates that Public Protector,Thuli Madonsela, may have found no evidence of wrongdoing it is reported that Continue reading
Police chief takes steps to intimidate media in wake of allegations of defeating ends of justice
Private prison administrators G 4 S claim critics cast them as villains because they oppose privatisation
I am one of those who opposes privatisation of public services especially the prison and police services. Continue reading
Raymond Suttner 