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South Africa: 'Brutal, violent
Stellenbosch students, their parents and club owners are outraged at what they have described as brutal drug raids on nightspots in the student town on Friday night, and some are considering taking legal action against the police.
Police found only a small plastic bank bag and two joints of dagga and three grams of hashish, at the clubs.
Several witnesses have come forward, describing how the police, wearing Kevlar vests and carrying firearms, burst into Bohemia, Die Mystic Boer and Springbok Pub around midnight and assaulted several students, sprayed them with mace, took the... Read more
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ZimDaily - London,UK
23 August 2007
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Zimbabwe: Riot police assault
Reports from Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) representatives Joseph Rose and Vincent Madeko indicate that the armed policemen descended on vendors going about their routine business at Zimunhu Shopping Centre and other small centres.
“When the policemen arrived, they beat up everyone in sight,” Rose, the Ward 20 Coordinator said. “The vendors escaped into the neighbourhood but police pursued them. Most residents are still showing visible marks of beatings.”
He said they baton sticks while some had rifles, which were merely to show force. It is estimated that 50 innocent citizens were caught up in the melee. Some sustained bruises all over their bodies when they fled from the baton-wielding policemen who demonstrating intolerance.
Police in Mabvuku and Tafara carry out periodic raids on vendors and confiscate their wares. However, they do not record from who they have taken them and it is believed they usually raid them when they are in desperate cashflow situations.
CHRA has been receiving several reports of concerned residents who have been beaten up by policemen. Meanwhile, residents in Ward 45, Dzivarasekwa on Wednesday converged at Dzivarasekwa district office and demanded that the local district office urgently attend to the crisis of burst sewers that have gone unattended for nearly two weeks.
Dzivarasekwa and Tynwald have had perennial problems of burst sewers for ages and request for assistance from the district office have fallen on deaf ears. The crowd of about 70 residents which was led by the CHRA local leadership of Ward 45 made several resolutions.
After meeting the officers in charge at the district office residents resolved the following;
If the sewerage bursts which have been left unattended to for weeks are not solved the residents will throw the sewer at the district office. They argued that most of the people working at the district office did not live with sewage burst and hence could not sympathise with the residents. They would want to throw the sewage at the district office as a sign of discontent and also to make them appreciate the gravity of the matter.
Residents are also keen on petitioning the Minister of Water Resources and Infrastructural Development on the state of waste management and in particular the sewage crisis that has hit the area. The letter will be carbon copied to ZINWA and the City of Harare .
They will mobilise residents from other areas so they can make a combined action at the Town House and ZINWA offices within 14 days.
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