The SAPS has fired eight of the police officers implicated in the death of Mozambican taxi driver Mido Macia.
Macia died in a police cell after being dragged behind a police van in the township of Daveyton, on the East Rand, last year.
A cellphone video of the act went viral, prompting huge outrage.
National police commissioner Riah Phiyega revealed the dismissals in a presentation to a parliamentary oversight committee yesterday.
Phiyega referred questions to police spokesman Solomon Makgale, who said the men were fired earlier this week at the conclusion of "disciplinary processes". He said that, before their dismissal, they had been suspended without pay.
Makgale said: "It's finished between us and them. We don't have a relationship, so what is left now is the criminal investigation."
Makgale said Macia's arrest had not been warranted.
The men axed were constables Lungisa Chalmers Gwababa, Bongani Kolisi, Percy Jonathan Mnisi, Bongumusa Mdluli, Sipho Sidwell Ngobeni, and Mbongeleni Thamsanqa Ngema, and warrant officers Alfred Linda Sololo and Mishack Malele.
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