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09-22-2009, 05:10 AM #4741
Komatipoort - Police at the Lebombo border post, one of South Africa's busiest borders, have been accused of being accessories to child trafficking.
Vusi Ndukuya, an anti-child trafficking activist and member of the anti-child trafficking body MPULIMO, said he has interviewed over 30 children who were smuggled across the border from Mozambique into South Africa since 2006, many of whom indicated that police accepted bribes to look the other way.
"I don't trust the border police. In most of our cases we have found that police were either aware or were involved in helping traffickers smuggle children into the country," he said on Friday.
'Soldiers must return'
Ndukuya said there were fewer incidents of child trafficking when the army patrolled the border.
"The soldiers should return and patrol the borders because the police can no longer be trusted," said Ndukuya.
One 10-year-old victim of child trafficking, who cannot be named to protect her identity, was rescued last week.
She told African Eye she was lured from her home in Machava village near Maputo city in Mozambique when a neighbour lied to her parents about taking her to school in South Africa.
She got as far as Orlando informal settlement near Komatipoort.
"When I got to Orlando squatter camp, (my neighbour) told me that I came here to become a nanny and not start Grade 1 as she told my parents," said the child.
She said that when she entered South Africa, the woman left her on the roadside and approached a policeman at the border post and exchanged money.
She and the woman then crossed the border and took a taxi to the informal settlement.
Saps denies claims
Ndukuya said other children revealed that police who stopped and searched them would demand bribes if they didn't have passports or ID books.
On Friday, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa's spokesperson, Hangwani Mulaudzi, denied police were aiding child trafficking and insisted that policing at the Lebombo border post is good.
"We have various departments that are part of a border control operational coordinating committee and we have senior managers that control and assess the border, he said.
09-22-2009, 06:03 AM #4742
Secret crime stats meeting slammed
A decision to close the doors on a parliamentary portfolio committee meeting today at which Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa will report on the 2008-2009 crime statistics has been slammed by the opposition as a "risk to transparency".
But the committee says everything is above board.
The committee meets at 9am today, but it announced yesterday that it will do so in a closed session and the media will not be briefed on Mthethwa's report until midday. The National Assembly will have to wait until 2pm.
The decision that Mthethwa will report in secret was made on Friday.
DA spokeswoman on safety and security Dianne Kohler-Barnard said the public would be denied access to the important question-and-answer session between the minister and opposition parties.
"The main issue is that, when the police minister [Mthethwa] is before the committee, we have the right to question him - but if the portfolio meeting is closed, the public will not know what the opposition party members questioned him about," she said.
Kohler-Barnard said the public had a right to hear the minister account before the parliamentary committee for the crime rate in South Africa.
The Constitution requires that Parliament conduct its business in an open and transparent way, and section 152 of the National Assembly's rules severely limits the situations that would allow a committee session to be held behind closed doors.
"Holding this session behind closed doors, and then holding a press conference immediately afterwards, gives the impression that the minister is trying to stage-manage the release of crime statistics," Kohler-Barnard said.
But Mthethwa's spokesman, Hangwani Mulaudzi, told The Times yesterday that this was "normal procedure.
"There is nothing different about this; the portfolio committee on police has to ratify the information before it is released," he said.
Parliamentary spokeswoman Estelle Randall said it "was not unusual" to close certain briefings, but she gave no reasons for the closing of this meeting of the portfolio committee.
The deputy chief executive officer of the SA Institute of Race Relations, Frans Cronje, said that, after national police commissioner Bheki Cele assured the public that the government would "get tough" on crime, the exclusion of the public from the meeting created a "perception" that the police were misleading the public.
"There is so much secrecy in all this and for them to decide to have a closed meeting first puts the credibility of those statistics in doubt," said Cronje.
In the 2007-2008 financial year, the statistics showed that robberies in non-residential areas increased by 47.4%, in residential areas by 13.5%, bank robberies by 11.6%, truck hijackings by 39.6% and car hijackings by 4.4%.
09-22-2009, 11:00 AM #4743
Misdaadsyfers agter geslote deure bekendgemaak
Die nasionale misdaadstatistiek word vanoggend eers in die geheim agter toe deure bekend gemaak voordat dit later amptelik aangekondig sal word.
Me. Lydia Chikunga, voorsitter van die parlementêre komitee wat toesig hou oor die polisie, het voor die aanvang van die komiteevergadering gevra dat lede van die media en die publiek "hulself verskoon omdat die vergadering geslote is."
Mnr. Pieter Groenewald, Vryheidsfront-Plus-LP, het Chikunga gevra wat die redes vir haar besluit is, aangesien die inligting in elk geval later openbaar gemaak sal word. "Ons moet versigtig wees om die media en die publiek van die soort vergaderings uit te sluit."
Chikunga het gesê sy sal haar besluit tydens die vergadering redes verstrek.
Die minister van polisie, mnr. Nathi Mthethwa, en die nasionale polisiehoof, komm. Bheki Cele, sal die nasionale misdaadsyfers later amptelik op nuuskonferensie bekend maak.
09-22-2009, 11:04 AM #4744
Seksmidaad en roof het skerp toegeneem
Daar was 'n skerp toename in seksmisdade en rowery in die afgelope boekjaar, wys die nasionale misdaadsyfers wat bekend gemaak is.
Huisroof het in die tydperk van 1 April 2008 tot 31 Maart 2009 met 27% toegeneem en seksmisdaad met 10%.
Die minister van polisie, mnr. Nathi Mthethwa, he gesê die regering is veral ongelukkig met die styging in die genoemde twee misdade, sowel as in vooraaddiefstal en kommersiële misdaad wat met 41,5% toegeneem het.
Kontakmisdaad wat moord en poging tot moord insluit, maak steeds die grootste gedeelte van misdaadstatistiek uit op 32,7%. Moord het egter met 3,4% afgeneem en poging tot moord met 4,7%.
Die nasionale polisiehoof, komm. Bheki Cele, het gesê hy is glad nie gelukkig met die syfers nie -- al is syfers vir moord en poging tot moord laer as in die ooreenstemmende tydperk verlede jaar.
09-23-2009, 03:54 AM #4745
Huisrooftogte skiet hoogte in
Huisrooftogte hét in die jaar tot einde Maart met meer as 27% gestyg. Dis amptelik.
Mnr. Nathi Mthethwa, minister van polisie, het gister tydens die bekendmaking van die polisie se misdaadstatistieke vir die jaar sedert 1 April 2008 gesê huisrooftogte het met 27,3% gestyg tot 18 438 landwyd.
Huisrooftogte het in 2006-’07 met 25,5% (tot 12761 gevalle) gestyg en die jaar daarna met 15,5% (tot 14 481 gevalle).
Gauteng het die meeste onder huisrooftogte deurgeloop (8122), gevolg deur KwaZulu-Natal (4601) en die Oos-Kaap (1517).
“Misdaad in ons land het ’n unieke gewelddadige karakter. Ons erken die polisie moet meer doen om dié soort misdaad te pak,” het Mthethwa gesê.
“Dié misdryf is baie indringend (in mense se lewens) en dit verpersoonlik die misdaadervaring. Ons kan eenvoudig nie ’n situasie aanvaar waar mense nie veilig in hul huise voel nie.”
Luidens die statistieke maak kontakmisdaad 32,7% van alle misdaad uit.
“Dit is die soort misdaad waarmee geweld gewoonlik vereenselwig word.”
Hy het gesê dat vyf van die sewe kontakmisdade, waaronder moord, afgeneem het.
Volgens Mthethwa het rooftogte by ondernemings, motorkapings, seksuele misdade, veediefstal en handelsmisdaad ook kommerwekkend gestyg.
Rooftogte by ondernemings het met ’n massiewe 41,1% gestyg (4058 meer voorvalle). Daar was altesame 13920 voorvalle.
Volgens die minister is klein ondernemings en spazas in die meeste gevalle die slagoffers van dié soort misdrywe omdat kontant meestal hier gehou word.
Hy het gesê die regering is ook baie ongelukkig oor die styging van 10,1% in seksuele misdrywe.
“Ondanks die algehele toename van dié misdryf is daar ’n klein afname in misdade teenoor vroue en kinders. Ons moet egter die maatreëls versterk om dié misdryf te bestry.”
Vragmotorkapings en motorkapings het ook met onderskeidelik 15,4% (192 meer voorvalle) en 5% (714 meer voorvalle) gestyg.
Mthethwa het gesê veediefstal het met 2,7% gestyg, wat hy sê ’n ernstige uitdaging vir die polisie is.
“Dié soort misdaad beïnvloed die lewens van mense negatief, veral in landelike gebiede.”
Hy het gesê benewens die toename van 16,6% in handelsmisdaad het die bedrae geld wat betrokke is ook erg gestyg.
Terwyl die bogenoemde misdade kommerwekkende stygings getoon het, het moord en poging tot moord met onderskeidelik 3,4% en 4,3% gedaal.
Altesame 18148 mense is vermoor – dit is 339 minder as in die voorafgaande jaar.
Mthethwa het gesê hulle is ook bly om te sien dat gewone aanranding met 4,3% en aanranding met die doel om ernstig te beseer met 4,7% afgeneem het.
Daar was ook ’n drastiese afname van 29,2% in bankrooftogte en 2,3% in transitorooftogte. Die rede hiervoor is volgens Mthethwa die vennootskap wat tussen die regering en sake-ondernemings gevestig is.
“Kitsbankontploffings het ook met 10% gedaal danksy die polisie se vinnige reaksie en die samewerking met die banksektor.”
Mthethwa het gesê dit is duidelik die polisie kan nie alleen die stryd teen misdaad wen nie.
“Ons erken dat misdadigers nie in geïsoleerde gemeenskappe woon nie en daarom moet ons ’n dieper vennootskap met die gemeenskap vorm.”
"The police need to collect information from a variety of sources in order to draw a proper picture of crime," he explained.
Overall, the government's target to lower contact crimes by 7 to 10 percent a year seems a long way off, Burger added.
He said increases in crimes like shoplifting and attacks on small businesses indicated that the global economic meltdown had played a role.
"People are increasingly suffering economically, and this could contribute to these increases."
These included "filling of critical positions in the forefront of the fight against crime, the auditing of skills levels within the SAPS, the augmenting of Crime Intelligence, and the improvement of the criminal justice system", said Bacsa's Graham Wright.
09-23-2009, 03:55 AM #4746
18 000 moorde pla polisiehoof
Altesame 18 487 mense is in dié jaar tot einde Maart vermoor.
Sowat 28% van dié mense is doodgeskiet.
’n Verdere 54% is doodgesteek, 14% is doodgeslaan, 2% is verwurg en 2% is op ander maniere vermoor.
Hoeveel van dié mense tydens gewapende rooftogte in hul huise doodgeskiet is, is nie gister in die bekendmaking van die polisiestatistieke genoem nie.
Statistieke toon dat 15,9% van moorde gepleeg is as gevolg van ’n ander misdaad.
Mnr. Nathi Mthethwa, minister van polisie, het gister tydens die bekendmaking van die jongste beskikbare misdaadstatistieke gesê moord het die afgelope jaar met 3,4% afgeneem as daar na die aantal moorde per 100000 van die bevolking gekyk word. (Met rou syfers is die afname 1,8%.) Hy het gesê hulle is tevrede dat daar ’n voortdurende afname is.
Komm. Bheki Cele, nasionale polisiehoof, het egter gesê hy is baie ongelukkig oor die aantal moorde. “Ek kan nie gelukkig wees as tien mense vermoor word nie, wat nog te sê 18000.
“Dit is ’n groot getal. Mense is nie meer veilig in hul eie huise nie. Hulle lê op hul beddens en wapens word op hulle gerig en hulle word vermoor in hul eie huise,” het Cele gesê.
Die meeste moorde (4713) is in KwaZulu-Natal gepleeg, gevolg deur Gauteng (3674) en die Oos-Kaap (3515).
Cele het gesê ten spyte van die afname in sekere misdade is die polisie steeds nie tevrede met die misdaadvlakke nie. Hy het gesê hulle kry al die nodige meganismes gereed om betyds op misdaad te reageer.
Mthethwa het na die wysigings in art.49 van die Strafproseswet (die sogenaamde “skietwet”) verwys wat in wording is, maar gewaarsku dat skietlustige (trigger happy) polisielede nie moet dink dié wysigings is ’n lisensie om dood te maak nie.
Hy het gesê dit is ’n maatreël wat spesifiek gerig is op gewelddadige en gevaarlike misdadigers. Polisiëringsforums, ondernemings, die banksektor en die breë publiek speel volgens hom ’n belangrike rol in die bekamping van misdaad.
'Act on all violent crime'
Johannesburg - The government should focus attention on all forms of armed violence rather than exclusively on house and business robberies, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation said on Tuesday.
"We are concerned that the crime statistics will be used once again to motivate for focus on the trio robberies [house, business, car robberies] when there is clearly a need for a renewed and comprehensive engagement by government with the overall problem of violent crime," said CSVR researcher David Bruce.
He said this after the 2008/09 crime statistics revealed increases of 27.3% in household robberies, 41% on business robberies, and respectively 5% and 14.4% on car and truck hijackings.
This, says Bruce, could overshadow other forms of violent crimes like incidents of sexual violence which were usually committed with the use of weapons like guns and knives.
'Focus on all armed violence'
"The government must focus on all armed violence, not just trio robberies. This implies focusing on the overall problem of armed violence... involving violent crimes committed with guns or knives, as well as sexual violence," he said.
On releasing the crime statistics, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said sexual offences had increased by 10.1%, but added that the increase could be attributed to changes in the legislation whereby new categories were added to the category of sexual offences.
"CSVR recognises the seriousness of the problem with trio robberies. However, we would caution against an exclusive focus on these robberies [because] at this point they make up 38% (47 273 cases) of aggravated robberies in crime statistics and therefore do not make up the bulk of aggravated robberies," said Bruce.
He said prioritising "trio" robberies reflected the fact that wealthier South Africans were prioritised more than their poorer counterparts as they tended to complain more than poor South Africans.
Focusing on violent crime generally and disarming criminals would help reduce murder, rape and aggravated robbery cases, said Bruce.
09-23-2009, 03:56 AM #4747
Die mans het heeltyd vir hulle weggehardloop en weggekruip in die kompleks wat ’n radius van sowat 1,2km het.
“Ek het hom gegryp en ons het ’n bietjie gestoei.
09-23-2009, 03:57 AM #4748
Saps must pay widow R2.2m+
Pretoria - The widow of a senior Reserve Bank official, shot dead in his driveway by a policeman, has been awarded more than R2.2m in damages against the Minister of Police.
Acting Judge Henk Havenga on Wednesday in the High Court in Pretoria ordered the minister to pay damages to Rosemarie Gugger for the loss of support she suffered as a result of the unlawful killing of her husband, Eric, in August 2004.
Gugger's son, Bjorn, was earlier awarded R50 000 for his unlawful assault, arrest and detention.
Former police inspector Daniel Pienaar shot and killed Gugger Snr in his driveway after a high speed chase through the streets with Gugger Jr, which ended up at his parental home in Moreleta Park in Pretoria.
Pienaar was last year acquitted on a murder charge.
Thought cops were hijackers
The judge accepted that Gugger Jr and his father had been under the impression that he was being followed by hijackers and could not have known that the men in plain clothes in an unmarked car who were following him were actually police officers.
He rejected Pienaar's claims that he had acted in self-defence because he feared Gugger was about to shoot him.
The court found that Pienaar's conduct had not been reasonable and that he had acted not only unlawfully, but also negligently.
Pienaar immediately fired shots after suddenly turning around and pushing Gugger out of the way.
This was after Gugger had pushed a gun to his neck, told him to stand still or he would be shot and asked who he was.
Cops in constant danger
When Pienaar asked the dying man if he did not know he was from the police, Gugger replied that he was sorry, but he thought they were hijackers.
Pienaar's first reaction after realising he had shot an innocent man was to call his colleagues and tell them he had "shot a 'rabbit' who had stormed him with a gun".
Havenga said he was mindful of the fact that police officers operated under circumstances where their lives are in constant danger.
There might be occasions where it would be prudent to shoot first and ask questions later.
"This is not such a case and Inspector Pienaar should have realised that. In my opinion he either made an error of judgment or lost his head in the heat of the moment," the judge said.
"He has to live with the knowledge that he killed an innocent man. There are no winners in this case."
It was clear that Pienaar overreacted and that he could not have thought that he was under threat.
"The deceased did not shoot him when he had the opportunity... Not even when Pienaar suddenly turned around, now facing the deceased with the weapon still pointing at his neck, did the deceased shoot."
09-23-2009, 04:17 AM #4749
Huisroof raak al erger
Kaapstad - Gewapende huisroof het die afgelope twee jaar met meer as 40% toegeneem, wat Suid-Afrikaners se persepsie dat hulle onveilig is, bevestig.
Boonop het rooftogte by sake-ondernemings binne twee jaar met byna 90% toegeneem.
Die nasionale misdaadsyfers, wat gister in die parlement bekend gemaak is, wys dat roof met verswarende omstandighede – waaronder huisroof, roof by sakeondernemings en motorkapings – skerp gestyg het.
Dié misdade word die meeste deur Suid-Afrikaners gevrees.
Gedurende die afgelope oorsigtydperk – wat van 1 April 2008 tot 31 Maart 2009 strek – het motorkapings met 5% toegeneem. Rooftogte by sakeondernemings het in dié tyd met 41,5% gestyg, en in die vorige oorsigtydperk met 47,7%. Dié soort misdaad het dus binne twee jaar met byna 90% toegeneem.
Mnr. Nathi Mthethwa, minister van polisie, het gister op ’n nuuskonferensie gesê dit is bemoedigend dat baie van die kategorieë van kontakmisdaad afgeneem het.
In teenstelling daarmee is die groot styging in die aantal rooftogte met verswarende omstandighede baie kommerwekkend.
Mthethwa het, nes sy voorganger, huisrooftogte uitgesonder as dié soort misdaad wat ’n besonder traumatiese uitwerking op mense het.
“Dit is een van die mees indringende ervarings om in jou huis beroof te word. Ons kan nie toelaat dat mense in hul wonings onveilig voel nie.”
Hy het onderneem dat die polisie hulle in die komende jaar veral hierop sal toespits.
Die syfers vir moord (3,4% minder) en poging tot moord (4,3% minder) het die afgelope drie jaar geleidelik afgeneem, met die nasionale moordsyfer wat op 18 487 staan.
Dit is egter verontrustend dat die grootste aantal moorde, verkragtings en ander misdaad plaasvind onder mense wat mekaar ken, het Mthethwa gesê.
Sowat 65% van die omstandighede waaronder moorde plaasvind, hou met rusies, gesinsgeweld en liefdesdriehoeke verband.
Hoewel seksuele misdaad met 10,4% toegeneem het, het die hoof van die polisie se misdaadstatistieke-afdeling, dr. Chris de Kock, gemaan dat dié syfers gesien moet word in samehang met die nuwe Wet op Seksuele Oortredings wat alle seksuele misdade in een kategorie saamvoeg, selfs oortredings wat met sekswerk gepaardgaan.
Die toename in seksuele misdaad dui dus nie noodwendig op ’n toename in verkragtings nie, het De Kock gesê.
Me. Lisa Vetten, ’n senior navorser by die Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, het by navraag gesê dit maak nie sin om al die misdade in een kategorie saam te groepeer nie.
“Die vraag is: Tot watter mate word verkragtingstatistieke gemanipuleer?”
Dr. Johan Burger, ’n senior navorser van die Instituut vir Sekerheidstudies (ISS), het op sy beurt gesê die feit dat die sogenaamde trio-misdade (huisroof, roof by sakeondernemings en motorkapings) jaar ná jaar styg, wek die indruk dat die polisie nie verstaan waar hierdie misdaad sy oorsprong het nie.
“Dié misdade het ’n regstreekse uitwerking op mense se veiligheid en lei uiteindelik daartoe dat beleggers- en sakevertroue afneem of dat mense die land verlaat.”
09-23-2009, 04:32 AM #4750
Voormalige Mnr. Thabong lewenslank tronk toe
VIRGINIA. – Lewenslank plus nog 15 jaar.
Dít is hoe lank die model en voormalige Mnr. Thabong tronk toe gaan weens die moord op die onderwyser en musiekman mnr. Jogie van Tonder (35), wat op 1 April 2008 in sy woonstel in Welkom vermoor is.
Mnr. Bonginkosi Goodenough Khoza (29), beter bekend as Bongi, het gister stip voor hom uitgestaar terwyl regter M.B. Molemela hom gevonnis het.
Daarna het hy in die beskuldigdebank gaan sit en met sy kop in sy hande begin huil. Hy is vroeër die week op aanklagte van moord en roof met verswarende omstandighede skuldig bevind.
Khoza het gister onder baie sterk polisieteenwoordigheid verskyn, waarskynlik omdat hy vroeër in Welkom by die hof ontsnap het deur ’n polisieman met die kop te stamp. Daar is ook gerugte dat Khoza glo wil selfmoord pleeg.
Regter Molemela het in Khoza se vonnisoplegging gesê hy het Van Tonder se goedhartigheid terugbetaal deur hom te beroof en te vermoor.
Sy het Khoza se dade as wreed beskryf.
“Die gemeenskap spreek hulle gereeld teen die hoë voorkoms van ernstige misdade uit. Dit moet doeltreffend aangepak word. Die hof moet ’n boodskap aan misdadigers stuur – misdaad sal nie geduld word nie. Die boodskap is eenvoudig: misdaad betaal nie.”
Sy sê Khoza se motief vir die misdade was uit suiwer gierigheid en hy het nooit berou getoon nie.
Khoza se aansoek om appèl teen die skuldigbevinding is afgekeur, maar sy aansoek om appèl teen die vonnis is toegestaan.
Die polisie het kort ná die hofgebeure Khoza op ’n aanklag van ontsnapping aangekla.
Dít kom nadat hy verlede jaar, kort ná sy eerste hofverskyning, uit die hofgebou in Welkom ontsnap het.
- Khoza moet volgende maand in Kaapstad in die hof verskyn ná die moord op mnr. Charles Vergotine (35), wie se lyk op 13 Maart in sy woonstel in Groenpunt gekry is. Hy is ernstig aangerand en het aan hoofbeserings beswyk.