Viewfinder is a new accountability journalism project, incubated in GroundUp but intending to become its own independent publication in time. Viewfinder does long term investigations into abuses of power which impact on the public interest – specifically as it relates to the need for equality and redress – in post-apartheid South African society.
Viewfinder's first exposé, launched in October 2019, shows how IPID, the police watchdog, has failed to properly investigate serious complaints against the police, including rape and assault. Yet IPID has manipulated statistics to give the impression that has investigated these allegations.
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The agreement would make policy what is already happening in practice
1 September 2021
Report says ratio of civilians killed by police to police killed on duty in South Africa, about 13 to one, is a cause for concern
26 August 2021
Police officer found not guilty of the killing of 15-year-old Damian Ahrendse
17 August 2021
More than a year after his death, and months after the police watchdog implicated eight officers in murder, police management has not acted.
7 July 2021
Official statistics show no Gauteng officers have been disciplined for violent offences since 2016
5 July 2021
2 June 2021
Sitole told Parliament that an “independent” discipline unit needs to be established
1 June 2021
But Parliament has failed to enforce its recommendations in the past
25 May 2021
Police minister brushes off Viewfinder’s devastating findings on police brutality
18 May 2021
Every year, police in South Africa kill hundreds of people and are accused of brutalising thousands more.
11 May 2021
The cases we know about are likely far outnumbered by those we don’t
13 April 2021
39 children died at the hands of police or in custody between April 2012 and March 2018
7 September 2020
Does Jennifer Ntlatseng have what it takes to run the police watchdog?
21 July 2020
Investigator has still not returned to the scene of the assault or interviewed key witnesses, according to Miggels’ family
10 June 2020
