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Police brutalityExplanation We will submit that in this particular case it is a tragic example of how our justice system at the time from the police right through to the highest court in this country had failed it’s citizens by not protecting them from the excesses of the executive and its administration. Also the absence of ... "the police, the SADF, councillors and their henchmen have been seen at the scenes of petrol-bombings and other savage acts of brutality...we can no longer stand idly by while our wives, children and property are being attacked. We have no option but to defend ourselves and it is in this context ... MS MTANGA: Can you help me understand, when you say there was brutality by the police, if there was no political activity in the area how would this brutality come out or how did you see it coming out? ... largely responsible for the scripting of that play. The play itself, he used the rent boycott slogan as its title, and it was really exposing the police brutality and the other political realities of the set up in Lamontville. After Mzizi Dube's assassination, many people who were seen as ... But during this period of time, and I am referring during 1989, 1990, 1991 specifically, we put a tremendous lot of pressure on the police force. I, at many, many occasions said that the murders of the farmers, the attacks on the farmers based on the brutality of the attacks, based on the fact ... ... and happy handedly, with all it entails more death, it will entail more death". It was the people in the townships who were experiencing police brutality and oppression and it was about time in fact that we had to shift the battle area, the battlefields, in fact into White areas where ... with a friend to act as a poll watcher as it was expected that the State would falsify the election turnout. For personal reasons I did not and the Police beat up a friend who went and broke his camera. For a few hours we, he and I, planned our own military campaign against Apartheid State, but ... Youthful anger as stones and tyres were no match against tear gas, rubber bullets, naked police brutality which knew no bounds. There was no state of emergency in the Western Cape at that time, but police acted as if they were above the law. ... Unit, the ITU, between 1994 and 1996. The ITU's primary brief was to investigate hit squad activities carried out under the cover of the KwaZulu Police. I have been asked to give an overview of the picture unearthed by the ITU. This story, I believe, explains how it was possible for hit ... ... it is clear that the activists in those video's are people as Gen van der Merwe testified, between 16 and 20, it shows the helplessness of the police Chairperson, to deal with matters of mass action, it also shows in our submission, the ineffectiveness of the existing prevailing security ... ... People had asthma, diabetes, there were so many diseases at that time. What I am coming to now is that I am trying to show the brutality of the police. It was not discriminating at all. People like Reverend Tshonga and Reverend Thandala, they were taken from their ... refinement of cruelty in keeping families guessing about the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones - sending them carelessly in a run-around from police station to police station, to hospital and mortuary in a horrendous wild goose chase. That is one side - the ghastly and sombre side of the ... ... terrible act and whether they still permit people to be members of their party and whether that party, the IFP, will give their co-operation to the police in ensuring that these people are brought to justice. We have seen many people like yourself who - or we have taken many statements from ... ... to face the water we realised that the van was moving down and we could not see any driver. We shouted that the van is moving and some of the policemen were laughing, and we realised maybe we are going into the lake. Only to find out that the driver was asleep, no he was not sleeping he ... ... and used every means possible to secure convictions. The second categories is the state attorneys and their staff, who defended and covered up for police brutality in thousands of civil claims over the years and who provided the legal defence for perpetrators of violence against people during ... ADV MOTATA: Now, since, did Morris, for instance, visit Ledig, as you said a number of your comrades visited Ledig and that's how they knew about the brutality of the police at Ledig towards the community, was Morris one of the guys who visited Ledig? ... local Town Council which was in government in our town and our attention was directed to the local Town Council, our attention was directed to the police brutality and also the interference of the police in our campaigns to mobilise people around the constituent assembly idea. In our ... MR MODISE: Thank you Mr Chairperson. I think we need to understand exactly how the police were used in this country. They were actually serving in the front line of oppressive forces. Amongst them you found the most brutal, in fact they were leading insofar as torture and brutality was concerned. ... ... ANC officials, but any troublesome stalwart who, in their simple minds, was a threat physically or otherwise to the peace in this their province. Police brutality is what the ANC marchers chanted when Petrus Zulu was killed at a rally, not death to murderers. Capt O'Connell's words flashed in ... The Police were caught in this trap especially those falling into the Security Police category. It was only a question of time before more and more brutality was to be unleashed to subdue the brave ones who spoke out against the injustice." |
