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COSATU and POPCRU work together to achieve a fruitful Mandela Day

By Kouthar Sambo The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) have collaborated to mark Mandela Day. According to COSATU, the duo hosted two important events today. The first initiative happened in Gugulethu where cleaning, cooking, and delivering meals for the vulnerable took place alongside NGO Meals on Wheels. Furthermore, POPCRU will honour one of its members who passed on in […]

today18 July 2023

Local

Popcru blames lack of resources for high levels of crime in SA

The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has finally convened its 9th North West conference in Rustenburg. The conference was halted twice last year by some disgruntled members of the union, who were unhappy about the processes used to convene the conference. Addressing the conference, union president Zizamele Cebekhulu says a lack of resources is to blame for the high levels of crime in the country. He says thousands of police […]

today7 June 2023

Local

We need more boots on the ground’: Popcru slams drop in officer numbers

LOCAL The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) wants increased technology support and more police officers, its president said at a central executive committee meeting this week. “Over the past few years budget cuts, poor infrastructure, a lack of resources and training, and staff shortages have reached crisis levels and are preventing our members from performing their work effectively,” Zizamele Cebekhulu-Makhaza told 800 delegates. These challenges placed police and correctional […]

today1 December 2022

Local

Popcru to march to Union Building demanding 10 percent wage increase

The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) confirmed that it will go ahead with its march to the Union Buildings on Tuesday after the union rejected government’s three percent wage offer. Popcru is expected to start the march at Church Square in Tshwane, before proceeding to the National Treasury and then the Union Buildings. Popcru’s spokesperson Richard Mamabolo says, “Workers have not received increases over the past two years […]

today20 September 2022

News

‘Why was armed protection of anti-gang cop withdrawn,’ questions POPCRU

A 1 million rand reward has been put on offer to anyone that will lead to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the murder of slain detective Lieutenant Colonel Charl Kinnear. Speaking on the VOC Breakfast Beat show on Monday morning, Founding member of the United Public Safety Front, John Cloete stated the murder of Kinnear could not have been avoided due to the ruthless way in which […]

today21 September 2020

Local

Popcru expresses concern over increase police attacks

The police union, Popcru, says it is disturbed by the increase in attacks on police members in the line of duty over the past three years. The union has commemorated the lives of 29 of its members who have died in the Mthatha cluster in the Eastern cape during this time. In the last five years 80 police members were killed while on duty. The killing of five police officers […]

today29 June 2018

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