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Police brutalityExplanation ... further in exposing the atrocities and the injustices that were happening in the country. The media houses could have gone much further in exposing police brutality in townships, for instance, and they chose not to, they deliberately chose not to. They could have done much more to challenge ... ... South African Defence Force, National Defence Force were targeted and killed and it is so that certain sections of the community were subjected to police brutality and were in fact being killed. It is also not disputed that the deceased had, at that point in time, tried to act as mediator in ... ... in seeing that these problems don't emanate in this fashion. Now the desk also was helping us in a way that we could be able to monitor the police brutality. We had to be efficient in this. According to be the situation that prevailed at this particular time, the way things were ... CHAIRPERSON: I understand what he's trying to make, the point is he is trying to suggest that everybody who went through the hands of the Security Police in those days was subjected to this form of brutality and this attempt to turn them. ... the area people were going to die on that day. So I do think that many of the - particularly Pollo Park, Polla Park had a particular experience of police brutality. For example, I think in 1992 the entire Polla Park was cordoned off with razor ... ... is concerned, in the early 1980's as a student, I was exposed first hand to the brutality of gun-wielding, baton charging and teargas spraying by Police and the general atmosphere of harassment then prevailing. On some occasions indiscriminate attacks by the Police and students (indistinct) ... you know very well that the truth will come out one day, you know very well that it will happen". He said, "Your son is injured, you must go to the police", and he went and boarded the car and I followed them in ... the past that we come from that if you were a member of the police living in a particular community where that community was at the receiving end of police brutality, that any policeman would be seen as being part of the ... ... some of our fellow students were brutally killed. Here Mr Chairman I think of Andile Matshoba, a COSAS leader who was shot in Mdantsane by the police. Mr Chairman I remember about ten of our members who were drowned by the Ciskei police in the Buffalo River in ... CHAIRPERSON: And isn't that normal criticism of any normal people throughout the world? Here is another instance of police brutality that must be condemned. It's not political, Mr Hattingh. MR MAFU: Madeira Police Station was the main police station in Umtata, the capital of the Transkei. One could safely say that it was the centre of oppression where police brutality was metered from to the people around the Transkei, so in a way it was the symbol of the Transkei Police. CHAIRPERSON: Thank you Mr Sereko, for coming here to-day. Your story is a very complicated story, but it shows up again the brutality of the police and we will be hearing many stories of what the police did in this area, during to-day and to-morrow. the testimonies that we've heard over the past year that the Commission has been in operation, we've heard of not only the brutality of the security police and other security personnel, but we've also heard of the callousness of some of our ... ... known as the Second Brandville Massacre, and from the information that we have received from other people, and from what we've been told by the police and others, 18 people died on that night when residents of the hostel left ... (incomplete - end of Side A, Tape 1) ... were women, and your ... MR SWART:: I would say the stone throwing started because that was the only way in which, well possibly pupils and outsiders could show their disgust at the brutality, the harassment metered out by our police force. supporters of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the African National Congress (ANC) by hit squads of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and KwaZulu Police (KZP), supported by the former National Party (NP) controlled South African Government and its security organs. It does not suggest that the ... ... I did Duduza. I went to Middelburg and the furthest place that I went to was the Eastern Cape. All these places it was people were crying of police brutality. I was able to see the differences in the action of the police, Soweto, Alexandra and these other ... Before I was discharged the doctor came and said the police at Cambridge said the doctor should phone them when I am being discharged, so I was supposed to be discharged, to go earlier before the day in which I was supposed to be discharged to protect me from the brutality. Firstly I want to say that it cannot be (indistinct) that police brutality was a general phenomena of apartheid law enforcement, it was certainly not confined to the enforcement of the Security laws. ... it was in 1992, wherein I was also not able to bring in even a hardly a single assingment due to a situation one was being exposed to through this police ... |
