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Police minister Bheki Cele has urged law enforcement officers to enforce the law but withstand provocation after Julius Malema’s 'war statement' ahead of Monday’s national shutdown.

The proposed shutdown is nothing but a thinly-disguised EFF election rally at the expense of taxpayers and honest hardworking South Africans

In the final hours of his 36th birthday, Dylan Bezuidenhout’s cries for help echoed across the small park on Roslin Road, Stirling, but no-one came. Family and friends wept at the Cambridge Crematorium Chapel as Bezuidenhout was laid to rest on Thursday morning. The young engineer’s body was discovered on Friday last week by private guards from Broubart Security in a white Ford Figo, Dispatch reported.

The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Fannie Masemola will conduct a state of readiness visit to Gauteng operations on Friday, 17 March 2023. The aim of the visit is to assess and ensure that Gauteng police are ready to police the planned protest that is set to take place on Monday,

The Acting Provincial Commissioner of the SAPS in Mpumalanga, Major General Zeph Mkhwanazi has strongly condemned incidents of vigilantism after two young men, aged 17 and 18 were brutally killed in Kwamhlanga this week. It is alleged that certain groups of community members took the law into their own hands after accusing the two victims

The community policing forum in Phoenix says it's prepared for any attacks during shutdown protests on Monday, after EFF leader Julius Malema fired a salvo at the community.

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says the EFF has not served the police with a notice to protest ahead of the party’s planned national "shutdown" on Monday, which may lead to possible confrontation. 



Police Minister Bheki Cele has asked his officers to show bravery when dealing with those who break the law during next week's planned shutdown.

The police are in “combat mode” and ready to deal with any acts of anarchy that may arise during Monday’s planned EFF nationwide shutdown and its build-up activities.

The murder trial of four men and a minor accused of killing two North West police officers will go ahead in July.