Damning allegations of senior police officials involved in corruption, an inadequate police force and high levels of gender-based violence (GBV) were among concerns raised by West Rand residents
Police minister Bheki Cele, flanked by national commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola, minister of home affairs Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and senior officials from the department of mineral resources & energy and energy, sat through an almost six-hour event after last week's gang rape in Krugersdorp.
A woman said day and night she witnesses police taking bribes and drugs, adding she had seen a woman being abused by zama zamas in front of police, who then shook the illegal miners' hands and drank with them. Others accused police of using state resources, such as police vehicles, at weekends for personal errands. Some said because some police officers had been in the area for many years, they were friends with criminals who were then not dealt with.
Cele again highlighted SA's social ills, saying in most townships there are more taverns than sport centres, libraries or churches.
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