Ant-Eviction Campaign participates in a debate on Police Brutality
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Tags: Pamela Beukes, police brutality, POPCRU
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Police shoot residents in peaceful AEC protest against Gugs Mall
29 10 200929 October 2009 at 15h30
Contacts: Malibongwe at 074 639 9551 and Mncedisi at 078 580 8646
The Gugulethu police interrupted a peaceful protest by the Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign this afternoon. Without warning residents at all, they shot at us with rubber bullets injuring dozens and arresting many others.
The much of the crowd was made up of old women and there were a lot of children also present. A 17 year old lady was shot in the face by the police and is now seriously injured and at the hospital.
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Tags: Civic Centre, gugulethu, Gugulethu Square Mall, peaceful protest, police brutality
Categories : Archives, News & Press Release, gugulethu
AbM: The Attacks Continue Now in the Presence of the Police and Senior ANC leaders
28 09 2009Emergency Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Sunday 27 September 2009, 22:40
There are now senior ANC leaders in the Kennedy Road Community Hall. In their presence the homes of the elected Kennedy Road leadership continue to be demolished and burnt by the same small group of well armed people who have been carrying out attacks with impunity for 23 straight hours. None of the people that launched the surprise, unprovoked and heavily armed attack on the KRDC last night have been arrested and yet most of the KRDC is locked up in the Sydenham Police station (including those who were publicly performing the imfene dance in Claremont at the time of the attack).
The police are currently on the scene and are doing nothing to stop the destruction. These are the same police who have, over the years, attacked a number of peaceful and legal marches with swift, shocking (and very effective) brutality. They are very well equipped and armed. They can get the riot police to support them in just a few minutes. They can get water cannons and helicopters in a few minutes. They can call in the army if they need to. It would be supremely easy for them to stop these attacks if they wished too. The police complicity in these attacks is now entirely beyond question. It is a matter of clear and obvious and undeniable fact.
We have just heard that S’bu Zikode’s house has been demolished and his goods have been stolen. He personally requested support from the police but received none. Should we be surprised given that these are the same police that tortured him in 2007 for the crime of trying to attend a radio interview?
There is no democracy for the poor in South Africa. Abahlali have been saying this for years. Now it must be obvious to everyone. It is time that we all stopped pretending that everything is ok in our country.
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Tags: Kennedy Road, Kennedy Road Development Committee, paramilitaries, party politics, police brutality, S'bu Zikode, Sydenham Police
Categories : Archives, News & Press Release, Poor People's Alliance
Media: Strong-armed cops ‘to blame’ for protests turning violent
3 09 2009Strong-armed police officers are to blame for service delivery protests that turn violent, researchers from the University of Johannesburg said on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Balfour, Owen Manda, police brutality, Thokoza, University of Johannesburg
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Media: Cop fires on Cape Argus team
14 08 2009Note: The police routinely shoot unsuspecting residents and their children without warning. Generally, police justify their actions by saying residents are throwing rocks at them (this is often a lie). It takes police shooting the media for newspapers to actually public the truth.
14 August 2009, 12:22
By Kowthar Solomons
# Gallery: Khayelitsha service delivery protest
A policeman fired a rubber bullet at a Cape Argus news team during a service delivery protest in Khayelitsha’s Site C – despite the reporter having identified himself as a journalist.
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Tags: Cape Argus, Dan Plato, police brutality, rubber bullets, Site C
Categories : Archives, Mainstream and Other News, Site B and Site C in Khayelitsha
Opinion: It’s not xenophobia
29 07 200929 July 2009
Peter Alexander and Peter Pfaffe – Sowetan
Promises made but nothing has happened
CONCERN that service delivery protests will degenerate into xenophobic violence was fuelled by reports from Balfour, Mpumalanga.
But there is a history of opposition to xenophobia in Balfour’s township, Siyathemba. An analysis of the protest must take a different form.
This was said by Mohammed Waqas, spokesman for 30 foreign nationals, mostly Ethiopians, gathered outside Balfour police station. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Balfour, Mohammed Waqas, police brutality, Siyathemba, xenophobia
Categories : Afrophobia (Xenophobia), Archives, Mainstream and Other News, opinion / academic articles
Urgent update on ABM-WC Protest
16 07 2009Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape Press Update
The ABM-WC is calling an end to state criminality of criminalizing it’s members by applying old apartheid tactics of arresting, assaulting, and shooting people with rubber bullets when they exercise their right to freedom of expression and the right to protest.
The movement will not be silenced by the state under the leadership of so called ANC government, and will continue to be vocal using any forms of engagement.
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Tags: ANC-NWC, police brutality, rubber bullets, SAPS, Tokyo Sexwale
Categories : Archives, Macassar, News & Press Release, Poor People's Alliance, Site B and Site C in Khayelitsha
Media: Girl shot in head during protests in Kwazakhele
3 07 2009A PORT Elizabeth girl was admitted to Livingstone Hospital after being shot in the head, allegedly by police, during a protest action in Kwazakhele today (July 1). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: police brutality, police murder, police state
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AbM-WC chairperson has filed charges of unlawful arrest and assault against Law Enforcement
4 06 20094 June 2009
Mzonke Poni, Chairperson of AbM in the Western Cape, has filed charges this afternoon against Law Enforcement officers relating to his wrongful arrest and assault while in custody.
On Wednesday, Mr. Poni went back to see a doctor and get evidence of bodily harm as a result of the assault. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: assault, inciting public violence, police brutality, unlawful arrest
Categories : Archives, Macassar, News & Press Release, Poor People's Alliance
Homeless fight Cape Town city
4 06 2009| 04 June 2009 Anna Majavu – The Sowetan
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Tags: AbM WC, interdict, Macassar Village, police brutality, Stephen Hayward, Vusi Matikinca
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