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police brutality

Sex workers decry police abuse and call for decriminalisation of their work  

12th Dec 2022 Chris Gilili 0

Sex workers remain vulnerable to abuse and when police are so often the perpetrators, they have little to no protection from the law.

Nkandla style policing for all! – a call from activists

8th Jul 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Civil society call for the police restraint and de-escalation shown in Nkandla be extended to all protesters.

Protests against police brutality in Eswatini

2nd Jun 2021 Abigail Jele 0

The SUDF and other political formations in Eswatini are calling for an end to police brutality.

Swaziland United Democratic Front condemns police brutality

28th May 2021 Elitsha reporter 0

Not only are police accused of killing a student, they fired teargas and live ammunition to disperse his memorial service.

SAFTU slams “heavy handedness” of the police in Cape Town

24th Feb 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

The South African Federation of Trade Unions has condemned the excessive police deployment against the federation’s march in Cape Town in support of their national […]

Why heavy-handed policing won’t work for lockdowns in highly unequal countries

16th Apr 2020 the conversation 0

Many African countries have imposed lockdown measures stricter than countries in Europe and Asia in a bid to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. […]

Zimbabweans and South Africans unite against state brutality in Zimbabwe

17th Jan 2019 Mzi Velapi 0

A group picketed outside the Zimbabwean embassy against state brutality in Zimbabwe.

No money to reconstruct scene at “Killing” Koppie

24th Aug 2018 Mzi Velapi 0

The authorities charged with investigating the perpetrators of the Marikana massacre are unable to the job for lack of funding – and evidently for a lack of political will.

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