Battle to survive on the beat

It petrifies me that a dark cloud hangs over the heads of the men and women in blue. Last year the country lost more than 80 policemen and women. Most met their death at the hands of cold-blooded criminals.It has been an unhappy new year for families and colleagues of warrant officers Marias Bower, of Limpopo, Joel Seloga, of North West, and Siza Nyambeni and Thembinkosi Gumede, of KwaZulu-Natal, who all fell on the beat.