There is only one way to describe the second quarter of this year’s crime statistics: A bloodbath. And while Cele and his management seems content with 27 000 people dying in the slaughter house our country has become, it is ordinary South Africans who continue to fight for safer communities.
President Cyril Ramaphosa should look closer to home if he is looking to charge someone with “war crimes”, according to Action Society. While Ramaphosa is looking to lay charges of war crimes in the Israel/Palestine unrest, he is missing the war going on in his backyard and the person that
The fact that the #BlueLightMafia eight are back at work after the South African Police Service allowed their paid suspension to lapse by failing to conclude their internal disciplinary process in the prescribed 60 days, demonstrates how the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele and the National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola
Action Society believes that Police Minister Bheki Cele is sending good police officers to their deaths in the Western Cape as many areas are consumed by gangsterism. Outnumbered, understaffed, and under-resourced, these brave officers don’t stand a chance in the worst affected areas such as Delft, Gugulethu, and Khayelitsha. Even
Bheki Cele is missing in action in Delft, after years of empty promises. The community lost five children in four incidents on RED Sunday, 10 September 2023. This brings the murder count in Delft for September to 16. “Bheki Cele is missing in action while the Delft community is bleeding
“We aren’t shocked, in fact the reality is that the Western Cape Department of Police Oversight and Community Safety’s (POCS) Court Watching Briefs (CWB) report is just the tip of a very big iceberg. In our experience, most cases against perpetrators of violence against women and children, and specifically domestic
“The Police Portfolio commitee’s approval of the unconstitutional Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) Amendment Bill as it stands, will give Bheki Cele full control over IPID’s activities. He will have the power to appoint and remove the executive director of IPID from office, and with that, will change IPID from
File:Bheki Cele at press conference on crime at World Cup 2010-06-29 2.jpg” by Marcello Casal Jr/ABr is licensed under CC BY 3.0. Minister Bheki Cele has blood on his hands. During his time as minister of police more than 125 000 people have been murdered. In fact, it may be
Action Society announced a plan to mobilise civil society to demand that the #BlueLightMafia eight responsible for the Johannesburg highway assault are unmasked in court, dismissed from the South African Police Service (SAPS) (or at the very least suspended without pay) and that their access to personal weapons must be
Action Society is demanding that the whole senior management of the VIP Protection unit of SAPS should be restructured and the necessity for their existence should be reevaluated completely. Thousands of South Africans have already supported Action Society’s Ban the #BlueLightMafia campaign with the hashtag even trending on Twitter. There
Action Society acts in the interest of the public through active advocacy for policy change. We work within the community to fight for a reformed justice system, holding government accountable for failing to protect South African citizens.
