Webinar discusses citizen rights versus police responsibilities

THE College of Humanities at UKZN invites the community to join in on a public webinar in the entitled Policing through violence in South Africa’s lockdown: Citizen rights vs police responsibilities.

The webinar will be on Wednesday, 12 August from 3pm to 5pm.

Presenters include Major General Dimakatso Ellen Ndaba (SAPS Visible Policing), Major General Charity Nonhlanhla Zulu (SAPS Operational Response Services), Dr Bronwynne Anderson and chair, Prof Nirmala Gopal from the University of KwaZulu-Natal).

Ndaba is the Head of SAPS Visible Policing. In 2015, she became the first female commander to take over the Hillbrow policing cluster. In 2002, she was appointed station commander of Diepkloof and moved to several other stations including Eldorado Park and Kliptown, before she was promoted as the Orlando Cluster Commander. It was under her leadership, in Soweto, that many witnessed the arrest of Jackie Maarohanye, also known as Mama Jackie, a controversial Soweto school principal who was arrested for kidnapping and fraud.

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Zulu is the Head of Specialised Operations in the SAPS Operational Response Services. She is actively involved in the SAPS Command Group in relation to COVID-19. Zulu was previously Deputy Provincial Commissioner for Policing in Limpopo and has 28 years experience in the policing sector. She holds diplomas, degrees and certificates from Technikon Natal South Africa and WITS University.

Anderson is a senior lecturer specialising in gender education with a focus on gender justice, women and leadership and gender and education. Her research focuses on gender-based violence in schools and higher education Institutions, young people and sexuality and the constructions of masculinities and femininities.

Gopal is in the Criminology and Forensic Studies Department at UKZN, and among her foci of research is ‘hidden’ and vulnerable communities as victims of crime, social injustices and discrimination with the aim of promoting justice and fairness for unequal groups in society.

To RSVP for the webinar, visit: https://bit.ly/30B5Nmb

Once you have RSVP, you will receive a password to join the Zoom meeting. Zoom will prompt you to open Zoom meetings and enter your email address. You will be placed into a ‘waiting room’ and the broadcast will automatically load for viewing.

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