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recent shootings were at taverns in Pietermaritzburg, Katlehong and Mamelodi. (Emmanuel Croset/AFP)
ADELE KIRSTEN

Behind South Africa’s mass killings

Police will struggle to solve murders and massacres, as well as other crimes, because of corruption, shoddy management, low level officers being promoted and internal divisions…

  • Lyse Comins
8 min read
With just 531 criminal convictions from the 42 365 complaints, either South Africans are going out of their way to tell a whole bunch of outrageous lies or the state isn’t all that interested in doing something about police brutality.
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF VIOLENCE AND RECONCILIATION

Police brutality is government policy

For 20 years ministers in charge of the police have been telling them to beat up or kill criminals

  • Tristen Taylor
5 min read