Captain Khumalo celebrates 5th birthday

Happy Birthday to “me”! I had so much fun spending Khumality time with all my friends.

It is unbelievable to think that this project is already five years running. On Friday, 29 January 2016, the Captain Khumalo project was launched at Mzamomhle Primary School in Brown’s Farm, Nyanga in the Western Cape. The awareness programme was attended by 90 Gr 1 learners.

The Captain Khumalo programme is designed to educate childcare and primary schoolchildren aged between three and 12 years on a range of safety themes, and to encourage them to turn to the police for help and advice.

Captain Khumalo is a “trusted” character that addresses several safety issues, primarily driven by a crime prevention approach.

The programme is all about teaching children how to “Stay OK” including how they can make the right choices and recognising that there are consequences associated with the decisions we make. This also provides them with a level of awareness of appropriate safety behaviour to prevent them becoming a victim or perpetrator of crime.

Captain Khumalo is not an authoritarian figure; he is assuring and engaging.

During the past five years, Captain Khumalo has visited 58 primary schools and eight preschools from 2016 to 2020 in the Western Cape and Gauteng. The programme was attended by 19 179 learners of 427 classes.

Capt Granville Meyer

Philippi-East

[Congratulations to Capt Meyer on his Captain Khumalo programme. We hope that your will reach many more children since it is vital to lay a good foundation with children about safety and the consequences of getting involved in a life of crime. All the best. Ed.]

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Servamus - April 2021

Minibus taxi owners and drivers are not committed to road safety

They are all over our roads, they stop wherever they want to, ignore red traffic lights and are motorists’ worst nightmare.

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Is zero alcohol tolerance the answer to curbing drunk driving?

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By Annalise Kempen

Pollex - April 2021

Substance abuse - Repeat offenders - Long-term incarceration not the answer

Read More - Alternative mechanisms required - S v Frederick and Another 2018 (2) SACR 686 (WCC)

Two independent and unrelated matters were referred for review to the High Court in Cape Town (“the review court”), at the same time and by the same magistrate (“the trial court”).

Vicarious liability - SAPS reservist shoots and wounds his girlfriend with official firearm while on duty?

Read More - Booysen v Minister for Safety and Security 2018 (2) SACR 607 (CC)

This is a matter in which Mr Johannes Mongo, who was a SAPS constable reservist, shot and wounded his girlfriend, Ms Elsa Booysen.

THE HAWKS IN ACTION!

Read More In the matter between - Ms Nomachule Gigaba (Née [born]) Mingoma - The applicant; and Minister of Police - the first respondent; Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation - the second respondent (hereinafter referred to as the Hawks); Maj-Gen M O Ngwenya - the third respondent and attached to the Hawks; Capt K M Mavuso - the fourth respondent and attached to the Hawks; Sgt Norton Ndabami - the fifth respondent and attached to the Hawks; National Prosecuting Authority (“The NPA”) - the sixth respondent; and WISE4AFRICA - the seventh respondent. Case number 43469/2020 ZAGPPHC55 dated 11 February 2021, High Court, Pretoria (GP).

The applicant in this matter, Ms Gigaba, is the estranged (Afrikaans: “vervreemde”) wife of the former Cabinet Minister, Mr Malusi Gigaba.

Letters - April 2021

Captain Khumalo returns to school

After being side-lined for the past 11 months due to COVID-19, Captain Khumalo is returning to active duty. Captain Khumalo has returned to child-care centres and schools across Cape Town from 17 February 2021, to resume his mission of educating children on safety issues.

Om te gee … beteken ook om te ontvang

Die Bejaardesorgfonds vir afgetrede polisielede het op 5 Maart 2021 ‘n groot geskenk van die Klub79+1 groep in die vorm van ongeveer 600 gebreide blokkies en klaargemaakte komberse ontvang.