Gauteng police commissioner Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela says the South African Police Service did not receive any intelligence that the July unrest would happen.

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23 November 2021

Mawela yesterday gave testimony at the Human Rights Commission’s national investigative hearing into the July unrest. Around 340 people died during the unrest.

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