Saps faced 13,000 new civil claims in 2021/2022, according to the police s latest annual report, and paid out almost half a million rand to almost 5,000 claims during that period.
Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter recently put the spotlight firmly on the state of the police following his claims of inaction and botched investigations.
Desperate South Africans trying to beat the load shedding blues, have fallen victim to solar energy scams, says the SA Banking Risk Information Centre.