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A panel of experts looking into the July violence has found that the instability in the police’s leadership ranks and the strained relationship between the police minister and national police commissioner was not conducive to providing coherent leadership to the police and the public at large.

The township saw racial violence, which claimed 36 lives and left many injured during the July unrest.

Security analyst, Johann Burger, said that even if police were aware of some planned protests as the report suggests, time was not on their side to plan properly.