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Op-Ed: Ngcobo is but one example of policing gone wrong
The events of Ngcobo are portrayed as unusual, maybe because few realise that rural former Transkei has a very high murder rate. Yet the South African Police ...
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Op-ed: Number of awaiting-trial prisoners increases under lockdown
At the start of SA’s lockdown, prisoners were released in a bid to reduce transmission of Covid-19 in prisons. The emphasis was on sentenced persons via ...
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Op-ed: Prisons, overcrowding and preventing Covid-19 transmission
Over 163,000 people are in correctional facilities in South Africa. Outbreaks of Covid-19 in these prisons can have catastrophic consequences for both ...
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Op-ed: Inadequate and violent policing in KwaZulu-Natal: What's behind it?
KwaZulu-Natal has long suffered from inadequate, corrupt and violent policing. Recent events have simply made it more obvious. The problem of policing in the ...
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Op-ed: COVID-19: Prisons, overcrowding and preventing transmission
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Op-ed: When the rich buy indemnity, justice is denied
How much discretion does a prosecutor have to decline to prosecute? Is mediation always a good thing? Is there sometimes an obligation to prosecute? Does ...
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Op-ed: The 81% matric pass rate of prisoners is nothing to crow about as the number of convicts writing the exam is frightful
The number of prisoners writing matric is so frightfully small that we are left pondering how this is even possible 27 years into democracy. The fewer than 200 ...
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Op-ed: Law enforcement and DUI — how to curb South Africa’s road crash epidemic
The severity of the punishment, if caught, is not a deterrent to committing crime. If consumers of alcohol can be fairly certain that if they get behind the ...
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