APPEAL WITHDRAWAL OF EQUALITY COURT FINDING ON POLICE RESOURCING CANNOT BE CELEBRATED
27 January 2019
Minister of Community Safety, Alan Winde, says Minister of Police, Bheki Cele’s decision to withdraw its appeal against the Western Cape Equality Court order that national government is discriminating against poor and black Western Cape residents in how it allocates police resources, cannot be celebrated.
The withdrawal was announced during an interview on Cape Talk radio station on Friday, 25 January.
In December, the court also found that the system that is being used to allocate police resourcing is unfairly discriminating against poor and black people in the Western Cape.
The remedy has been postponed to a later date.