In 2014, Judge Kate O'Regan and Advocate Vusi Pikoli chaired a commission of inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha. GroundUp covered the inquiry in depth. Here are our reports as well as contributed opinion pieces from the inquiry.
Meanwhile the community is being serviced by a 24-hour patrol and a mobile unit
News | 11 December 2023
This comes nearly nine years after the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into policing recommended that a new station be built in Makhaza
News | 29 March 2023
Constitutional Court says it does not have jurisdiction on matter
By Liezl Human
News | 20 July 2022
Bheki Cele’s 2018 promise will not be kept until 2025-6
Brief | 18 May 2022
Police say construction of a permanent police station still on the cards for Khayelitsha
Brief | 2 November 2021
Community wants police minister and other government departments to account for lack of action on commission’s recommendations
News | 26 August 2021
Land for the Makhaza police station was identified already in 2004
News | 16 April 2021
Five years after Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry, recommendation to build new station still not implemented
News | 27 September 2019
Police ministry and SAPS continue to fail the vulnerable and the poor, says activist
Brief | 26 August 2019
“People would rather resolve an issue themselves than wait for police”
News | 5 June 2019
Victory for Social Justice Coalition may result in poorer areas getting more officers
By Thembela Ntongana and GroundUp Staff
Brief | 14 December 2018
Magistrate’s decision greeted with tears by protesters
News | 27 June 2018
“It cannot be we parachute in and parachute out,” resident tells police minister at launch of latest crime prevention operation in Cape Town
News | 16 May 2018
Activists want court to declare that present system discriminates against poor people
Law | 27 November 2017
“People are being targeted even going to the toilet”
News | 30 August 2017
Western Cape Premier and SJC disagree on police track record
News | 25 August 2017