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Police brutalityExplanation MR NGAKI: As I have already said, I loved my job as a police and I was involved in community relations. I was the editor of Aba Kuseli police magazine. My aim was to eradicate brutality. I was trying to pass a message to the police to secure and protect people instead of harassing and torturing ... It is a history of forced removals, of non-Tswana citizens, a history of corruption, banning of organisations, political imprisonment, deportations, police brutality, torture, hangings, impoverishment and degradation. It is a history strangely enough, of a homeland with a bill of rights, albeit a ... "One of the Security Branch's duties was, in terms of the police law, was to maintain internal security and it should immediately be realised that the multi-dimensional attacks against the government as is explained above, all had an effect on the internal stability and security and consequently ... Secondly, it was just coming after some literature and pictures and films portraying the brutality of this police state, the role of the police state in South Africa through pictures like The Last Grief to Timbaza. It also validated the truth of the brutality of the white race of South Africa. ... MS WILDSCHUT:: It must have been horrific to be a ten year old and to be faced with police persons, brutality, blood and your friend busy dying? ... that is - one must look at the whole object of disarming the farmers and using those arms that would then be obtained in the struggle against the Police Forces to keep them out of the neighbourhood where they were living and where the brutality as it is claimed took place. So one must view ... ... way. "The Detainees' Parents Support Committee reported solders picking children off the streets at random and holding them for several hours in police vehicles or in remote areas of the veld. The children were beaten with fists and rifle butts, whipped with sjamboks and subjected to electric ... ... suspicious circumstances, slipping on a cake of soap, falling out of a window at John Vorster Square, and so on, and they were interrogated by the police, very often in ways that could only be described as total ... resulted from the incident. First Applicant was acting in his capacity as a member of MK. The objective of the attack was to retaliate against police brutality committed against the Katlehong ... Solomon Mahlangu was subsequently tried and sentenced to death. He was executed on 7th April 1979. Monty Motlaung was declared unfit to stand trial because he suffered brain damage apparently as a result of police brutality. He was declared a State President's patient. |
