Category Archives: Policing

Raymond Suttner, Loss of trust and legitimacy result in ungovernability

http://www.polity.org.za/article/loss-of-trust-and-legitimacy-result-in-ungovernability-2014-02-11

Mandy de Waal, South Africa’s water wars

http://groundup.org.za/content/south-africas-water-wars

ANC taught us to protest, say today’s protesters

http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/anc-taught-us-protest/

Ed Cropley, Informal settlements ablaze with disenchantment

Informal settlements ablaze with disenchantment

Thapelo Lekgowa, Greg Nicolson, Boiketlong, Sebokeng-still dying for their rights

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-02-06-boiketlong-sebokeng-still-dying-for-their-rights/#.UvUQzv055SV

Sipho Hlongwane, SAPS caught in crossfire of service wars

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2014/02/07/saps-caught-in-the-crossfire-of-service-wars

Makhudu Sefara, Nobody should die fighting for basic rights

http://www.iol.co.za/the-star/nobody-should-die-fighting-for-basic-rights-1.1643432#.UvThU_055SU

ENCA, Violent protests spread across South Africa

http://www.enca.com/south-africa/violent-protests-spread-across-sa

Verashni Pillay, Full Marx at the NUMSA school

Full Marx at Numsa’s political school

Greg Nicolson, Here to stay. Sebokeng’s rioting rage

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-02-06-here-to-stay-sebokengs-rioting-rage/#.UvPD3_055SV

Alex Eliseev, Bonfires of discontent in horrifying numbers

Alex Eliseev discusses the extent of violent protests Continue reading →

Raymond Suttner, Are developments in NUMSA moving towards an emancipatory project?

http://www.polity.org.za/article/are-developments-in-numsa-moving-towards-an-emancipatory-project-2014-02-05

Evidence on bungled and intentionally deficient policing in rape and murder cases at Kyayelitsha commission

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-02-04-bribes-and-bungled-rape-murder-cases-khayelitsha-police-under-fire/#.UvEjTv3H1SV

Greg Nicolson on EFF mastery of dramatic entries and presence

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-27-coming-to-a-protest-near-you-the-eff-revolutionroadshow-continues/#.UukwTP3H1SV

Raymond Suttner interview on current situation with Creamer Media’s Polity

Amandla Marikana! by All Clear band (lyrics by Allan Kolski Horwitz)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8arEQfGd4w&feature=youtu.be

Lyrics Continue reading →

Greg Nicolson, on Durban Deep police killing

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-24-durban-deep-in-photos-another-day-another-police-victim/#.UuIQbv2asy5

State action used to threaten those who may not give Zuma warm reception in Eastern Cape

Note how police are present and those who are not inlined to give Number one a warm reception are threatened not only with organisational discipline but the arm of the state

http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/boo-face-arrest-eastern-cape-anc-warns-members/

Magistrates attacked for treatment of rape complainants

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/01/22/like-being-raped-all-over-again

Human rights watch slam SA police as ‘human rights threat’

There was a time during the struggle against apartheid when Human Rights Watch exposed the repression of the apartheid regime. Continue reading →