SAPS - The African Mirror

Jan

2023

South Africa: Eight killed in shooting at birthday party

GUNMEN killed eight people and wounded three others at a birthday party in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, police said, adding that a manhunt was underway to find the killers. The mass shooting was carried out by two attackers and occurred between 5:15 and 5:30 p.m. (1515 and 1530 GMT) on Sunday at a house in Kwazakele, Gqeberha, the South African Police Service (SAPS) said in a statement. The gunmen fled after the attack, and no arrests have been made, the police said. Investigations into the circumstances and possible motives for the attack were ongoing. Police have not named the…

Sep

2021

By The African Mirror

Court slaps top SA cop with R2.3-million restraint order

NEWS

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER LIEUTENANT-GENERAL Adeline Shezi, one of South Africa’s senior female police officers who is on trial for fraud, corruption and money laundering after she allegedly received kickbacks of just over a million rands, has, along with fellow accused, been slapped with a restraint order by the courts. Shezi, the suspended head of the South African Police’s Technology Management Services, is on trial after she received kickbacks to the value of R1.1-million from companies that won tenders from the South African Police Service (SAPS). The company that paid the bulk of the kickbacks - R793 059, won an R6-million…

Dec

2020

By The African Mirror

Crisis hits South African Police top leadership

NEWS

JOVIAL RANTAO TWO of the most powerful men in the South African Police Service - the national police commissioner General Khehla Sitole and Minister of Police Bheki Cele, the political head of the force - are on a collision course over the suspension of top police officers implicated in the purchase of personal protective equipment. At the heart of the dispute between Sitole and Cele was the decision of the national commissioner to suspend three generals. On December 1, Cele wrote to Sitole instructing him to halt the suspensions until his office had received a final report on alleged PPE…

Dec

2020

By The African Mirror

EXCLUSIVE: Two more SAPS generals face charges for failure to act on Kinnear murder threat

NEWS

JOVIAL RANTAO THE South African Police Service (SAPS) is poised to take action against two more top police generals for their role in the failure by the force to act and save the life of a top cop who was killed execution style by suspected gang members. The leadership of the SAPS has been forced to act after it became aware that some of its top officers failed to act after information was received about a threat to the life of Lieutenant Charl Kinnear, who was killed on September 18. An investigation by The African Mirror has uncovered that a…