South Africa Article's

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21705374

Hilton Botha has resigned from the South African Police Service. 

"Botha has also been heavily criticised for giving contradictory evidence at the bail hearing of Mr Pistorius."

"Det Botha, the first officer to arrive at the scene of the Valentine's Day shooting, was accused of mishandling the investigation after he amended his testimony during fierce questioning by Mr Pistorius's defence lawyers in last month's bail hearing.

Det Botha then admitted that police had lost track of ammunition found inside the house, and was accused of not wearing protective clothing at the crime scene. Det Botha is set to appear in court in May, along with two other officers also accused of opening fire on the taxi. Mr Pistorius, who is charged with premeditated murder, was released on bail on 22 February and is due to appear in court again in June."

Comparing the two articles 
The other from The Times talking about the South African Police Service, titled "Police arrested for murder after 'dragging' taxi driver"

The two articles both touch on a similar thing. The article above tells us what happened to Botha, and showing what went wrong in his hands regarding the Pistorius case.
The other article tells a completely different story yet it discusses the corruption in the Police service with comments from the South African president Jacob Zuma and South Africa's police commissioner.

These two sources are both very reliable and written very recently. Neither are biased and both give interesting information and valuable quotes. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21543851

BBC news 22nd February 2013 

By Andrew Harding 

Oscar Pistorius: South Africa under the spotlight 

The article discusses how South Africa has been affected by the Oscar Pistorius case. 

Hilton Botha, "underpaid policeman arriving for an important job without the necessary equipment - shoe covers - to avoid contaminating the murder scene, and without enough "connections" - his word - or colleagues, to ensure that the most basic evidence could be processed in time for the bail hearing."

The article also says how the 'highly paid defence' picked Botha's case to pieces in the Court room until Botha had to admit that all of his bold assumptions about Oscar's guilt was didn't in fact have any clear evidence to back it up as a result. 

"He had no records yet of Reeva Steenkamp's mobile phone calls, no information about the post-mortem, no forensic or ballistic information beyond a few informal conversations with experts at the scene."



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290213/South-Africa-angry-nation-brink-dangerous-warns-Nelson-Mandelas-wife.html
8th March 2013
By Sara Malm 

South Africa is a 'angry nation' on the blink of 'something very dangerous' warns Nelson Mandela's wife

The article tells us how last week Nelson Mandela's wife stepped up and spoke at the funeral of Mido Macia, held in the township of Daveyton in Johannesburg. She spoke about South Africa still being a 'angry nation' that has not 'forgotten about its apartheid past'.

‘South Africa is an angry nation,’ she said. ‘We are on the precipice of something very dangerous with the potential of not being able to stop the fall.


'The level of anger and aggression is rising. This is an expression of deeper trouble from the past that has not been addressed. 

'We have to be more cautious about how we deal with a society that is bleeding and breathing pain.’

This is a interesting opinion of a woman who has seen so much of the country. Her husband is South Africa's most influential man and it seems that she intends to continue his legacy. There is a lot of debate is South Africa about what will happen when Mandela dies, will the black people continue to live in harmony with the whites and follow Mandela's legacy after he has gone, or will the country turn to havoc. Many in SA are frightened that if something goes wrong they won't be able to leave, I know this because I have spoken to a friend who lives out there with her husband. They don't know what will happen and the fear of the future does worry White South African's. Bringing this back to the topic of the police I think white people feel that they can't trust them either, because at the end of the day the police service is mixed race (as it should be) but as we know from the continuous examples plastered across the front pages of our newspapers they are not perfect and do kill and rape, setting a bad example on the countries population. 

The picture below is a protester at the funeral of Mido Macia, the sign reads 'Police, why must you kill because you are the police?' 

Oscar Pistorius's father blames South Africa's gun culture on ANC

By Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg

7:00PM GMT 03 Mar 2013

The Telegraph online

"Henke Pistorius said he and other members of his family owned guns because they could not rely on the police to protect them against criminals.

He laid the blame for South Africa's violent crime rates, which are among the highest in the world with 15,000 people murdered last year, on the ANC government." 

"He also singled out crime against white South Africans. Many Afrikaners living in the rural areas fear they are being targeted because of an estimated 1,600 murders of white farmers since 1990."

He told the press in a controversial statement that many of his friends carried guns in fear, mainly because they did not trust the police service; therefore felt that they had to take their safety into their own hands. Defending his son he also singled out crime against white South Africans, that they targeted the wealthy. The article tells us that the Pistorius family in total own around 55 shotguns and hand guns between them, showing that they are a family familiar with guns and using guns.