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Police brutalityExplanation Miriam Moleleke had similar experiences but she stopped being a victim. // I want to say I’m healing somehow. Ek is gesond. Ek is OK. [I’m healthy. I am OK]. Ek het dit deurgegaan. Ek het gepraat daaroor. Ek het dit gevoel, maar ek het gese ek moet kans gee vir ander mense dat hulle dit moet ... When I say I’m affected psychologically, I’m not a psychiatric patient. But if you can ask any person who was detained under section 29 he will tell you the after effects of that. Anybody who was detained under that section never comes out a normal person again. Some preferred to stay behind. And this week they told the Commission of torture, of killings and of the pain that is so hard to forget. // He removed those electric wires from my neck and then they turned me on the other side. He opened my trousers at the back and then they took these electric ... But Vryburg hasn’t forgotten the torture. Nor the place called ”die lang boom,” a favourite place of torture. // They tortured me to an extent that I couldn’t scream. I decided to keep quiet because I realised that they were getting excited when I screamed. Later on I asked them, or I ... and fraud, ranging from free booze in the Vlakplaas pub, to the filing of false claims worth up to R80 000 at a time was the order of the day in the police force. Hundreds of thousands of rands were stolen and given to amongst others senior generals for overseas trips. But behind this mask of ... ‘I was in the heart of the whore.’ These were the words security policeman Dirk Coetzee used exactly seven years ago to describe his role as the commander of the Vlakplaas death squad. And this week Coetzee and two of his colleagues told their horror stories to the nation. They were in the ... Poverty, repression and police brutality in the 1980s. The townships on the East Rand were seething. Six COSAS leaders died in July in 1985 after being lured into launching an attack with hand grenades, booby trapped by Vlakplaas policeman Joe Mamasela. At one of their funerals Maki Skosana was ... Eight people were killed on that night and amongst them our youth leaders and some civic member leaders were killed by that group. So they knew who they were taking. // Linda Twala had a lucky escape that night. I survived to testify to police callousness and brutality. ... 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 those ... the other side of these mining communities this past week. Commissioners heard stories of the mayhem created by gangs, of the brutality committed by police and of the sadness left by the many exiles who never returned. ... ... take sides and are above politics, but during the apartheid era there were health workers who colluded with the state, often turning a blind eye to police brutality and torture. This past week the Truth Commission had a special hearing in Cape Town highlighting some of the human rights violations ... brutality of a different kind faced the Bongulethu community. // Something that stood out as quite horrific from this area, apart from many cases of police torture that were reported - in some cases, Supreme Court action was instituted; the large scale detentions without trial that took place in ... A large part of the Truth Commission’s activities revolve around human rights abuses by the policemen and soldiers of the former government. But there’s another chapter of brutality, one that has not been closed properly, the bloody conflict between supporters of the ANC and the IFP. That is ... ... trial in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court for murder. // The Motherwell bombing case: the state alleges that he was involved in the murder of other policemen. // At an inquest in 1993 into the murder of four other Eastern Cape activists, Niewoudt once again denied that he was ever involved in ... ... this repulsive form of killing was first started by white Rhodesian security forces in the 1970s and then brought to South Africa by the security police. Policemen burnt Siphiwo Mtimkulu, and Topsy Mdaka to ashes in 1982, the PEBCO three in 1985 and Sizwe Kondile in 1989. May God forbid ... ... betrayal would be echoed from Messina to Maotsi, from Prieska to Port Elizabeth and from the border of Lesotho to sandy Cape Flats. The victims of police torture and brutality were more widespread than ever imagined. Their voices were testimony to the lonely horror of John Vorster Square’s ... |
