Cyril's police headache: what to do with the brass
01 August 2021 - 00:03
Police boss Khehla Sitole's whingeing in parliament that police were all but powerless to stop the looting and unrest because they were "handicapped" by not being allowed in law to shoot the looters is a shocking indictment of the state of our police force...
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