Cut the deadwood from senior police ranks urgently, Mr President

The shameless buck-passing at the hearings into the July violence shows just how rotten the police ‘service’ is

05 December 2021 - 00:02 By Sunday Times Editorial

After watching the performance of the heads of our security establishment at the Human Rights Commission hearings into the July unrest, South Africans will have every right to feel afraid — very afraid...

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