Policemen in Rape ID Parade

It’s a sad indictment of a country’s police force that a father feels obliged to explain to his 12-year-old daughter ‘that, if she were ever in trouble, she must not call the police’.

Rugby Player ‘Tortured’ by Cops

Almost overcome with emotion during an interview on Radio 702’s Midday Report, Rwandan-born Deo Kaitesi, 26, who has lived in Cape Town since he was nine, described his ordeal at the hands of cops who he alleges repeatedly shocked him on the body and testicles with stun guns, held a lighter flame to his penis, and stole R300 from his wallet.

Rogue Cops Terrorize South Africa’s Highways and Byways

Given that South Africa has the highest rate of violent crime in the world, you’d think a police patrol car would be a welcome and reassuring sight. You would be dead wrong.

Getting to Know the Real Jacob Zuma

The latest controversy surrounding President Jacob Zuma illustrates a consistent thread running through his presidency: power abuse.

Mother Tells of Metro Cop Hell

A 36-year-old mother has described her ordeal after she was pulled over in Johannesburg by metro cops, assaulted, and locked in a police holding cell where “I was asked my age by two different officers who then started to flirt with me, saying that I was just the right age for them …

“A Proud and Young South African” Writes to The President of South Africa: “Have You No Shame Mr. Zuma?”

Remember the perceptions in the west that African men in particular are just a bunch of horny stallions, who cannot control their urges, lazy, corrupt and like easy money and have nothing meaningful to contribute to human advancement and development. How does our generation defend this insult with people like you around.

The South African Security Cluster Needs to Purge From its Ranks All the Dead Wood and All the Criminally-Minded

Once upon a time there was a popular radio show with the following byline which the authorities would have you believe is still true today: ‘They prowl the empty streets at night, waiting. In fast cars; on foot. Fighting crime and violence at every turn, expecting nothing less. These are the men of squad cars.’

It’s a Dangerous Game to Play, Patronizing a Loose Cannon Like Julius Malema

It’s obvious Julius Malema has his sights fixed on the country’s top job. Hell — with his arrogant posturing; his pronouncements on government policy; his threats of dire consequences for anyone who dares to not fall in with his views, particularly when it comes to the nationalization issue — he’s acting like he’s already the president of South Africa.

President Jacob Zuma’s Administration and the Post-Polokwane ANC Coalition is Unraveling

Justice Malala, in an article “Foul stench of rotting Cabinet” writes that President Zuma’s administration, mired in scandal and corruption, is unraveling. And that “Zuma himself is emerging as nothing but a priapic nonentity, laughed at behind his back by his Cabinet ministers as he fumbles from one disaster to another”.

President Jacob Zuma Fathers Baby With Soccer Boss’s Daughter

News that President Jacob Zuma is the father of a lovechild born to Sonono Khoza — a 39-year-old divorcée, and daughter of Irvin Khoza, Orlando Pirates boss and chairman of the soccer World Cup local organizing committee — has created a stir here and abroad. But his supporters say the whole brouhaha is just a storm in a teacup.