Top cop Khehla Sitole has placed his fate in the hands of the Supreme Court of Appeal in a desperate bid to overturn a scathing court ruling, which affirmed that he had breached his fundamental duties as a policeman.
An unidentified man has been shot and killed by Tshwane metro police officers.
The man was allegedly part of a crowd attempting to reconnect illegal electricity connections near Baviaanspoort on Tuesday evening.
The metro police have said they used rubber bullets to disperse the angry crowd, who pelted officers with stones.
Tshwane metro police officers have allegedly shot and killed a man when they tried to disperse an unruly crowd near Baviaanspoort.
The incident happened after illegal electricity connections were disconnected.
The Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD), the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Electricity Department embarked on an operation to remove illegal connections in Leeufontein near Baviaanspoort in Tshwane on Tuesday morning.
Doctor Setlai, 51, died after Tshwane Metro Police Department officers tried dispersing an allegedly unruly crowd using rubber bullets near Baviaanspoort.
POLICE allegedly fired rubber bullets to the chest of the deceased, Andries Tatane, and then beat him with batons. Photo: Willem van der Berg
Ten years ago today, Andries Tatane died after being shot with rubber bullets at close range by police in Ficksburg. The officers who stood trial for the killing were all acquitted and kept their jobs. Last month, Mthokozisi Ntumba was shot dead in similar circumstances. Viewfinder s analysis of hundreds of crowd management-related complaints against the police – registered in the years between the killings of Tatane and Ntumba – reveals that police are not held accountable for the alleged misuse of rubber bullets. The anonymity afforded by riot gear and the vagueness over the use of rubber bullets at close range still protects Public Order Police officers from the consequences.
It has been 10 years since Andries Tatane was killed by a police rubber bullet during a service delivery protest in Ficksburg, Free State. IPID reports show over 1500 deaths as a result of police action, in just six years.