In an interview last Thursday with Leanne Manas on SABC’s Morning Live, Police Minister Bheki Cele was asked to respond to Viewfinder’s findings. He said that he did “not agree” with them. He said we had not provided evidence for our statistical claims and implied that we had not approached the police for their right of reply.
“If you say police kill hundreds of people, and you leave that number there, you don’t put evidence on the table,” Cele said, before picking up on the point again later in the interview.
“One other thing that I dispute, that I would like to get evidence on, are numbers that there is hundreds and hundreds of them.”
Nine-year-old girl from Mbekweni dies after playing with police officerâs gun
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Cape Town - A nine-year-old child was shot dead while playing with a police officer s firearm with two of her friends in Mbekweni at the weekend.
Police spokesperson FC Van Wyk said a murder case was registered for investigation after a shooting incident on Friday night, at a premises in Drommedaris at Mbekweni, where the child was shot and fatally wounded.
According to a leaked police report, three minor children were invited to play at the officer s house, when he just arrived from work and took off his service pistol and put it on the sofa to fetch water.
On 29 May 2005, Johannes Mahlangu was arrested in connection with multiple murders. He was tortured in police custody, forced to confess and falsely implicated a neighbour. Now the Constitutional Court has ruled that the police minister must pay the men for their time in jail.
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