Pointman

First make sure there are competent and uncorrupt people in charge. It all comes down to the quality of people and recources. It is pointless asking a 100kg man to run 100ms in 10 seconds because failure is guaranteed.
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langman

deal with makwerekwere first and crime will go down and now you can further deal with SOUTH AFRICANS
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RobinH

And then what. Promote everyone and give them bonuses for non-performance?
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vivla

For a moment the, I thought she was Bheki Cele. Damn this women is wrong for many reasons. Do the police actually take her seriously?
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Chichi7

This is not the time to think about solutions but rather forcefully deal with criminals. Rattle them out of their hiding places and ensure that no place is safe for them and only then, will the police be dealing with crime. Whilst at it, deal with men that abuse their women as chances are that they end up killing them anyway.
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MorenaWaPolelo

Yhu this is shocking why don't you start with the police them selfs...how credible is the starts how can 50% of crime of the country happen in one area or is it Gautengers report crimes because they have cope shops nearer than places like Kuruman!!!!
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Chichi7

langman
deal with makwerekwere first and crime will go down and now you can further deal with SOUTH AFRICANS
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The problem with foreigners is a small percentage in comparison to problems with our own people. Pointing fingers is our biggest problem and we as a nation need to admit that we have done things wrong and we need to fix them. Blaming a minority group is not helping matters at all. No country in the world that has no foreigners, so deal with it.
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RobinH

Chichi: "Pointing fingers is our biggest problem" - Seldom are truer words spoken.
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minezolo

Phiyega looks exactly like Cele in that picture
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Dandalo

Selebi messed up Gauteng, Cele was about to fix it, at least he was a hands on man who knows what is it that he is doing and how. Now this woman dont even understand special operations, task force and what they went through, just a poor civilian. A cilivian of the worst order, actually where is Zuma driving us to.
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Kaylae

Oh my word she is a SHE not a HE???????????????????????????????
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Ngwedane'endala

Bring back Bheki Cele, how can you hire someone who was a manager at woolworth and Mr Price to be a police chief. South Africa sometimes??????????
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Ngwedane'endala

I wonder if she has children, I would like to see a father of them or her husband if she has.
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Socrates

vivla...ha ha ha, i thought so too, honestly
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RobinH

Ngwedane'endala: "I wonder if she has children, I would like to see a father of them or her husband if she has"..... What has that got to do with anything?
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Papage

Deal with Police who take pribes from the so called Pakistanians in our communities, they have build so many shops that operate until very late, apparently they hijack trucks that delivers food/goods to other businesses, they have storage houses all over, they store these goods there and fetch them for the small stores in the Townships as they need, if only we can stop their business, before we the communities take the law into our hands the better. These Pakistanian businesses are robing the country economic benefits, they tranfer all their monies out of the country, they dont employ locals, because they don't trust them, they are crooks. If Government and the Police do nothing, I see troubles ahead. Please investogate their dealings
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Tall-n-handsome

for a moment I thought this was pitso mosimane, damn this woman is ugly......lol
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Makhosini0408

One thing that is working against SAPS is the militarilization of the police. De militirize them, Madam Phiyega because the SAPS' mandate states clearly that they are to serve and protect. Soldiers are empowered by the Defence Act to k.ill in defence of the RSA's soveignty.
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swona

this petro dude, he thinks 16 hijackings is an achievement from 25? I should have been 10 or 7, that would have been an achievemnt worth mentioning, 16 is still a lot taking into considerstion of all the police officer who are forever in police stations certifying ID copies, certificates, birth certificates and passports, those people should be out there in the streets, being visible, have you notice Mrs Pyega that you'll soon need to buy around 20xtra chairs per police station? maybe its in the budget for next financial year!
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swona

Ngwedane'endala
Bring back Bheki Cele

they chose her because she's uggly! she'll scare the criminals, she must scare petros 1st!
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swona

wonder what Mangwashi mean,
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Papage

Le yena o Montso man, can't they do something to her face before she speaks to the public, just to make her bit lookable, she looks very bad right now or she is not photogenic
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RobinH

Papage: What is with you people gthat make such an issue of women's appearance. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH ABILITY!!! I don't see many commentiong on how ugly JZ or any other man is. Now why is that?
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JohnStone

@Dandalo

Selebi did not "mess up Gauteng" as you wrongly alleged, Gauteng and the rest of the country was messed up long before Selebi became commissioner, he just couldn't fix the mess he found when he came into office. Remember that Selebi served under "The Thinker", "The Intellectual", "The cleverest president SA had ever had". Both Mbeki and Jackie are educated people and they wanted "academic solutions" to SA's crime problem. Mbeki's analysis of crime was very correct, but the academic solutions fell too short of addressing this problem. Enter Zuma and Cele in 2009, 100% Zulu strongmen, guerillas from the bush, not very educated but self-educated anyhow, these two believe in real solutions and none of those Mbeki and Selebi "academic solutions". That is the reason crime declined markedly between 2009 and now, because they decided that fire must be fought with fire at the same time addressing the real underlying causes of crime such as lack of skills, unemployement etc. General Phiyega is an educated person and she must avoid seeking "academic solutions" to South Africa's crime problem. It has been proven that a strong police force with enough fire power can reduce violent crime. There is virtually no academic solution when thugs are carrying guns and shooting up a storm in residential and business areas. Academic solutions will win the war against crime, but a well trained and dedicated police force will win the battles in this long drawn out war. No cop must die with their gun still strapped in the holster, never!
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swona

what bothers me is an energetic young police officers in a charge office, with his gun, heavy as it is certifying coppies, that I cannot swallow it! cn we get someone to do that? and this guys go into our streets to fight crime, in my nearest police station, you can get up to 20-25!
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Flemza

I still believe Msholozi must bite his tail and get Bheki Cele back , I don`t see this mum doing anything to crime , Cele was a hands on police head giving directions not asking for them Please please just take this mother off and give it back to Cele
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TDK

See what i hate about senior managers? They tell you to come up with new strategies to address a specific problem. Why aren't they proposing new strategies themselves? When you as a junior come up with the effective strategy s/he gets all the credit.
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Makhosini0408

Ngwedane'endala
Bring back Bheki Cele, how can you hire someone who was a manager at woolworth and Mr Price to be a police chief. South Africa sometimes??????????
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If my memory serves me well, the last Commissioner of Police that came within the ranks of SAPS was George Fivas. The rest that followed were political appointees. Security forces or armed forces like SAPS have rich customs and it is easier for the force to function as a well-oiled machine, if the person at the helm came within the ranks. There is what is knowned as "closing of ranks" in this forces. This means that General Phiyega can be made a failure by internal processes and senior officers in the SAPS, who wants to frustrates her. If people decides to close ranks, they will not co -operate and I guess the SAPS, is not like the SANDF, where one gives an order and if it is not carried out, those in the wrong can be charged, which might even lead to their expulsion.

Unfortunately Gen Cele's involvement or shall we say interest' in the SAPS HQ fiasco compromised his office. By the way, the SAPS, have a procurement officer, so his involvement was a conflict of interest because Roux, is his friend.

My view is that, Let the General, do his job and we must judge her on her performance and not her previous experience as a business executive or lack of experience in terms of police training. Only time will tell as it is still early days.
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Doculam

1. She'll be my hero if she sorts out crime, her appearance is the least of my worries.
2. Why must your management come up with strategies, is that not your job - you are showing why people rightfully claim you are not fit for the job.
3. Fight fire with fire (fair and professionally though), even more so than Cele and you'll see results. But I doubt if you will, cause you are a political pawn and needs to keep your masters happy.
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Mmaditopo

@Papage, you have killed me with this one!

Le yena o Montso man, can't they do something to her face before she speaks to the public, just to make her bit lookable, she looks very bad right now or she is not photogenic
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Mmaditopo

Guys, don't be like that. The in-thing for the season is "undertone beauty with a touch of natural elements". Many guys think it looks sexy, phela many of you don't like women who wear make-up and weaves.
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MommaC

JohnStone
Selebi did not "mess up Gauteng"

Oh YES he did.

Selebi pushed to get the police doing border control and not the army which resulted in the borders becoming sieves and the tsotsis taking over

Selebi closed the special units which resulted in the police not being able to cope with crimes they had not been trained to handle

Selebi allowed 'friends' to bypass the laws so that the drug and organised crime syndicates could flourish

Selebi cut the training and entrance requirements for police intake to so low that giving a basic statement to the cops is almost impossible

Selebi promoted friends and family into high position over experienced officers which resulted in people at the top not knowing how to do the job and good cops resigning in droves due to frustration

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Ma-Bhova

@Chichi7
langman
deal with makwerekwere first and crime will go down and now you can further deal with SOUTH AFRICANS
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The problem with foreigners is a small percentage in comparison to problems with our own people. Pointing fingers is our biggest problem and we as a nation need to admit that we have done things wrong and we need to fix them. Blaming a minority group is not helping matters at all. No country in the world that has no foreigners, so deal with it.
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There is a big difference in pointing fingers and telling the truth, our drug syndicates are foreigners. They run this town through using poor South Africans who also want to make it in the world. U can arrest or clean up the bottom as much as you like but you will never get far as long as the head is still on top, catch the big fish first then the small ones will start evaporating. Amakweja run this country through drug trafficking, take Glen Angliotti for instance's, his also a kwerekwere despite the color of his skin. His known as the drug lord that sold out a police commissioner but we did nothing about him. how pathetic are we as a country.
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Limpopoist

16 Hijack per day ,these does not make any sense
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Papgat

One of the reason why Gauteng has more statistics on crime, especially hi-jacking is because of too many foreigners. Let the Nigerians pack and go, then crime stats will be lower.
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maditaba

Deal with foreign syndicates first and crime will immedately go down by half. Then you can focus on the local thugs
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Papage

Why all the police leaders are so ugly, the only handsome one was Selebi, but he was so corrupt, Bheki ugly and corrupt and this woman is ugly too, will she solve corrupt police?
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BinoBanga

Crime is out of hand in South Africa. The problem is people with skills are not taken into consideration. There were two persons, a young blackguy and a white man in Tzaneen Cluster who use to make crime stats presentation and their efforts were fruitful. The way they use to present their statistics was so clear that police were able to understand the crime situation in Tzaneen Cluster and that would result in intelligence driven operations and which was bearing fruit. Those two are no longer there, and the police are in the dark in terms of statisics. Operational plans are no longer intelligence driven. National Commissioner, pls take such people into consideration. They will play a big role.
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Mrazane

shame sorry uCommissioner udaliwe naye, net udalwe ngendlela engajwayeleki
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Mellow

I have lost hope in the SAPS well hopefully the Com Gen can do something bout the crime rate its just disgusting we living like animals
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somaartakeit

Another deployee minister set out to fail as she clearly has not clue, hence is asking the police for solutions, does she really think if they had solutions they wouldn't have reduced crime activities in GP by now? The uselessness and incompetence of the anc regime is going to take SA and everyone into a dark hole.

Anyway the good news is that, sanctions against Zim will be relaxed by the West, that will breath in some much needed oxygen into its economy, at least SAns when you are being reduced into economic refugees by the stupid regime ruling SA aground, you will have a place to run to, neh:-)
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MommaC

I love the way it becomes a beauty contest.
Would we REALLY prefer Khanyi Mbau in charge of the police?
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RobinH

MommaC. Ridiculous isn't it. How despite all the lip-service to Womens' Equality, men here behave like the good ole chauvinistic freaks they have always been.
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ILTAK

LT 4GT ABT WHO DNE RITE OR RNG ND HLP OUR OFFCLS 2 FIGHT CRIME DNT WRY GENERAL AM BHND U

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RobinH

ILTAK. Try something closer to being intelligible.
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Mellow

MommaC
I love the way it becomes a beauty contest.
Would we REALLY prefer Khanyi Mbau in charge of the police?
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Uhm really now am sooo puzzled really like good looks can lead right? Some ppl are crazy for sure
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Mygirl

I am still saying u cant be a principal if u have never been a teacher really how are you going to run the school and monitor the teachers..????? This Woman she wont manage crime Cele was atleast getting there.
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Papage

She is ugly and will tacle crime the ugly way, those are Zumas appointed people, we shall see.
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somaartakeit

@Mygirl I agree partly with the principal teacher scenario, but I disagree on Cele, all that guy did was to tell the police to break the law whilst in pursuit of criminals, or what did you understand 'shoot to k!ll' slogan to be? In SA constitution clearly states that, a person is deemed innocent until proven otherwise in the court of law, so how can guilt or innocence be proven if a suspect is shoot and k!lled on sight? As a direct fo these outrageous utterances by the incompetent minister police think they are the law unto themselves, how many innocent civilians have you read about who were shot and k!lled on spot? the last time I looked SA was not a jungle, we have courts to determine guilt or innocence not police serving as both the judges and executioners cause they are too incompetent to gather evidence to firm up states case against a suspect.

Please ask Tatane's widow if you don't fully understand effects of shoot & k!ll suspects. The police in SA are ill equipped even to do the most basics of tasks and I blame the regime for that.
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The-Vince

Dzaaaammm....thi woman looks like a man.....!!!!!........mubi tjo.

maybe yi cousin yaka Cele
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The-Vince

ILTAK
LT 4GT ABT WHO DNE RITE OR RNG ND HLP OUR OFFCLS 2 FIGHT CRIME DNT WRY GENERAL AM BHND U
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Holly crap ILTAK, what are you doing behind the general,kissing her ass....any way she is a man.lol
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Popeye

Criminals hate the police…that’s why they get stabbed and shot.
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ILTAK
LT 4GT ABT WHO DNE RITE OR RNG ND HLP OUR OFFCLS 2 FIGHT CRIME DNT WRY GENERAL AM BHND U ...................................What is this now?

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Bohlale1

In some parts of the world, to be a police man you must have studied social science or something. You cant solve a problem especially crime if you dont have an academic record of such.

You know what I am sick and tired of this country where qualified people and people who have work hard during their schooling days sitting at home while this danda heads and people who dont even know how to read enjoying our taxes.

WHAT ARE WE TEACHING OUR KIDS..ARE WE TEACHING THEM THAT EDUCATION IS NO LONGER IMPORTANT??????????????MXM

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KEJA-NYWANA

Dear General Phiyega,

Having read the article above,I got so disappointed when you say the provincial police management must come up with strategies.With due respect General it is your duty to come up with strategies and the provincial management then will apply those strategies and we were told that you are bringing a lot of experience on management issues and this?

You got it all wrong madam.

All the best
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knobkirrie

vivla- we not all oil paintings you know
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