July riots conviction numbers are paltry

Over 5 000 arrests, only 50 guilty verdicts [View this email in your browser]( July 11,2022 [Mail & Guardian]( [Few convictions despite thousands of arrests after July riots]( Out of the more than 5 000 people arrested in connection with last July’s looting and vandalism which left 354 people dead in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, only about 50 cases have been finalised with a guilty verdict. Your morning catch up [New renewable energy should be built immediately, civil society groups urge Mantashe]( The organisations pressed the minister to promptly issue a determination for the procurement of 13 600 megawatts of renewable energy. [See through the Red Mist]( Mary Sibande’s third instalment in the tricolour Sophie series Let Me Tell You About Red is on at the Durban Art Gallery. [Amnesty for state capture will entrench impunity for wrongdoing]( Nothing short of full-scale prosecutions will restore us back on our route to entrench the rule of law. [Musk and Twitter: From volatile courtship to messy divorce]( Elon Musk’s pursuit of Twitter was a melodrama from beginning to end – a volatile courtship between a mercurial billionaire and the massively influential social media platform. [Bheki Cele: A bully and a buffoon]( The police minister made a farce of a public event that could have proved beneficial for residents of Gugulethu in Cape Town. As a subscriber, you'd have access to these great reads [War for diamonds: How stones found at abandoned mines enter the illegal economy]( [Remains of cannabis farmers executed during apartheid are repatriated]( [The power rests with you, Cyril]( [Agreement between ‘dangerous’ Chinese-SA project and UN must be retracted, say activists]( [Subscribe to support independent South African journalism]( [Share]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Tweet]( [Forward]( [Forward]( Copyright © 2022 Mail & Guardian Media LTD, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in to receive communications from the Mail & Guardian either at our website or by taking out a print subscription. Our mailing address is: Mail & Guardian Media LTD 25 Owl St BraamfonteinJohannesburg, Gauteng 2001 South Africa [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe]( here.