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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most recent arrest was on the Day of Goodwill (Boxing Day) after a police officer allegedly opened fire on four people — fatally wounding one — in Somerset West. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) spokesperson Phaladi Shuping confirmed the arrest.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shuping said that at about 3am on 26 December, four people — two men and two women — were walking on the R44 in Somerset West when a police van stopped next to them and police officers demanded to search them. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“They complied and, after they were searched, the police officers told them to go back home, but they explained that they were going to buy electricity at the nearby petrol station. It is alleged that the officers did not want to listen to them and the four people were adamant that they had to buy electricity.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“One of the police officers allegedly took out his firearm and fired at them, and one of them was fatally wounded.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The officer was expected to appear in the Stellenbosch Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday on charges of murder, assault and illegal possession of ammunition.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Corruption</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Free State, </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a collaboration between Ipid and the SA Police Service (SAPS) led to the arrest on 23 December of two police officers and a woman for corruption.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ipid spokesperson Robbie Raburabu said the woman arrived at the Welkom Police Station at 3am on 23 December to open a rape case against her boyfriend.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, he said, police officers at the station convinced the woman not to open a case against the boyfriend on condition that he paid R5,000. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The boyfriend then agreed to pay the money,” Raburabu said, “and he reported the matter to Ipid, which set up an entrapment in collaboration with the SAPS Anti-Corruption Unit.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of Ipid and SAPS officers arrested the three suspects at the Welkom Police Station. They appeared in the Welkom Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 27 December, on charges of corruption and the matter was postponed for seven days.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Attempted murder and kidnapping</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, December 20, two Atlantis police officers were arrested on charges of attempted murder and kidnapping. They allegedly shot a suspected thief in the industrial area adjacent to Atlantis in the Western Cape. The suspected thief allegedly stole a car battery that belonged to one of the officers.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raburabu told </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that Kevin Tamboer and Stanton van Heerden were arrested after a monthlong investigation.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“They appeared in the Atlantis Magistrates’ Court and were granted R15,000 bail. At this stage, the involvement of a third officer is still under investigation,” Raburabu said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The case was postponed until 14 February.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Business robbery</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In North West, eight people, including six police officers, appeared in the Brits Magistrates’ Court on </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thursday, 21 December, </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on counts of business robbery, kidnapping and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. They were each granted bail of R2,000. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were arrested on Wednesday, 20 December, by the provincial Anti-Corruption Investigation Unit and Mmakau detectives in connection with a robbery in Mmakau on Friday, 15 December, when the owner of a tavern was allegedly assaulted and robbed of R60,000.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to information, one of the </span><a href=\"https://www.saps.gov.za/newsroom/msspeechdetail.php?nid=50412\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">suspects was driving a marked police</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> vehicle during the robbery. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The accused are Sergeant Matlala Letsoko (43), Sergeant Lesiba Kgopa, (49), Constable Sejameriri Mamphekgo (34), Constable Croesus Chirwa (33) Constable Joy Makotla (32), Sergeant Masilo Mononyane (46), Emmanuel Lorekang (45) and Itumeleng Malebetsane (50). 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