Recording police in South Africa is legal and protected under the law
Legal experts have reaffirmed that members of the public are within their rights to record or photograph police officials performing their duties in public spaces.
According to guidance, there is no law prohibiting individuals from documenting officers while on duty. Simply recording a police official does not amount to interference, obstruction of justice, or any criminal offence.
Any arrest made under such circumstances would therefore be unlawful.
Furthermore, devices used to capture such recordings may not be seized, damaged, or destroyed by police merely because they were used to record officers.
Importantly, such recordings do not breach the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), as police officials cannot claim a right to privacy when carrying out their duties in public.
This clarification comes amid growing public concern about accountability and the role of bystanders in holding law enforcement officers to account.
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General Rudzani Maphwanya makes it clear that SAMIDRC troops are not in the DRC for peacekeeping. They were sent “to neutralise negative forces”.
Peacekeepers are under MONUSCO.
Ramaphosa and his fellow clowns must stop lying to the public.
JACOB ZUMA THE SPY ,THE FULL STORY, LONG BUT A MUST READ
It has been confirmed beyond any measurable doubt that disgraced former president, MK Party leader Jacob Zuma was DEFINITELY NOT uMkhonto we Sizwe solider but actually a spy.. Also with the current revelations it is definitely confirmed.
Jacob Zuma was an apartheid era spy planted in the ANC from the time he was sent to Robben Island
1. The son of a police man; Zuma was a low hanging fruit for recruitment by the apartheid machinery because like many other young men they wish to follow their father’s footsteps.
2. The story of his life has gaps and obvious conflicts that make it hard to believe.
3. His arrest in Groot Marico and conviction to ten years imprisonment for trying to leave the country is unsubstantiated and unconvincing.
4. He arrives in Robben island a few months after the Rivonia trialists. It is a known fact that the apartheid regime wanted to siphon information from the Rivonia trialists and the best way was to try and infiltrate their circle in prison.
5. Robben island was also a very good story to tell if someone wanted to join the ANC in exile to disguise their possible spy status.
6. He is released from Robben island on 29 December 1973 and spends two weeks in police custody in Pietermaritzburg police cells before being released to Nkandla. The two weeks in police custody raises suspicions of either debriefing or recruitment. His biography states that he married maKhumalo in 1973. How is this possible? Let us assume that he flew from Robben Island to Pietermaritzburg on the 29th December. Fourteen days from 29 December takes you to mid January 1974.
7. He arrives in Swaziland at the end of 1975 and for a short spell and returns to Durban. He returns to Swaziland in 1976 and trouble begins. Samson Lukhele a taxi driver that assisted Zuma to cross the border into South Africa is arrested and thereafter Joseph “Mpisi” Nduli and Cleophas Ndlovu. Ablon Bafana Duma receives a parcel bomb that reaps his arm and many other cadres operating on the Natal region are arrested.
8. He meets Nkosazana Dlamini who was working at the government hospital as a doctor and they work closely together as husband and wife.
9. He is arrested with Thabo Mbeki in Swaziland and is deported to Mozambique.
10. Ronnie Kastrils in his book Armed and Dangerous reveals that in 1979 Oliver Tambo and Joe Slovo disbanded an MK unit that he commanded because they didn’t trust him.
11. In Mozambique he connects with the Shaik brothers Chippy; Shabir; Moe and Shamim. Their relationship in post-apartheid South Africa is well documented.
12. He sends Moe Shaik to Swaziland on a mission where he is arrested and ends up in Durban. On his release Moe returns with a secret file from the Secret Service branch in Durban and fools the ANC into believing his story that he recruited secret service officers to work with him. The file contains a list of alleged apartheid spies in the ANC but excludes the top spy called Fear or Cyril Raymond (Edward Lawrence). This file becomes a project known as Project Bible. Many ANC activists including Chris Hani; Thami Zulu and Pallo Jordan were wrongly accused using similar information by apartheid agents. Ben Langa was assassinated based on this file and it turned out that he had been wrongly accused as a spy. During the TRC hearings it was revealed that a senior MK leader in Swaziland had given instructions for Langa to be killed. Moe Shaik also used this fake list to accuse Bulelami Ngcuka for being Agent RS452. This happened during the time when Ngcuka was preparing to charge Zuma. This was disproved when Vanessa Brereton confirmed that she was actually Agent RS452 and not Bulelani.