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The Western Cape head of detectives was found to have brought the police service into disrepute with a series of Facebook posts taking aim at national commissioner Khehla Sitole
The Labour Court in Cape Town has ruled that a disciplinary hearing against policeman André Lincoln, driven by national police commissioner General Khehla Sitole, be halted pending the referral of the matter to a bargaining council. This comes about a week after the Labour Court in Johannesburg interdicted Sitole from going ahead with the hearing against Lincoln’s colleague Peter Jacobs, previously the head of Crime Intelligence and now heading the police’s Inspectorate. Both Lincoln and Jacobs face allegations relating to the security of Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear who was shot dea...
Network agencies move into gaming, but who’ll top the leaderboard? We log on with four network newcomers and an indie incumbent to find out where the gaming agency sector is heading. As we explore in our latest deep dive, gaming leveled up this past year. New media opportunities mean brands are taking the sector more seriously as a channel, while the increasing popularity of esports has opened up new possibilities for sponsorship and influencer strategies. Meanwhile, sales of games are also on the rise, giving publishers and developers cause to consider their own...
An important study has just been published 1 examining the level of consensus among scientists about climate change. The issue at hand is this: What is the level of agreement in the scientific community about the reality of climate change and about the human role in climate change? The new paper, Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature, address this question and the answer is very clear. The number of climate scientists who question the reality of global warming or the human role in global warming is vanishingly small. This is not the first st...
In March, Lieutenant-General Jacobs succeeded in his Labour Court quest to suspend a disciplinary hearing against him. Now he’s fended off another hearing – this time in connection with slain cop Charl Kinnear.