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COMPLAINTS have been dropped against an officer accused of bashing a Somali youth, but police are continuing to fight the release of a confidential report into race relations between police and African communities in Flemington.
Dubbed the 'Doney Report' after its investigator, Whittlesea district Inspector Mark Doney, the review was commissioned in response to complaints of assault and harassment against African youth filed by community lawyers.
Flemington-Kensington Community Legal Centre lawyers have applied under Freedom of Information to obtain a copy of the Doney Re... Read more
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CHILLING allegations of police murder and brutality in villages around Port St Johns have been given to the Minister of Safety and Security, Nathi Mthethwa.
The minister was told how policemen from the national intervention unit (NIU) had terrorised and even killed residents in mainly the Majola, Mthambalala, Chaguba, Machibini and Mthonjana areas near the popular tourist resort town.
Residents told the minister that the brutality was so bad that they now feared police more than criminals.
One such account, related by Lulama Manto, who alleged that her father was murdered by police in 2000 during a raid, particularly shocked the gathering.
Speaking to the Daily Dispatch after giving a moving testimony of how she and members of their family watched heavily armed officers kill her father, she said the police had come looking for weapons and found none.
She recalled that it was in the early hours of the morning on December 20 when they were woken by the cops.
Manto said her father, Manyakathisi, who was the only breadwinner, had just come back home for three days from Gauteng, where he worked in the mines.
“When he said he did not have a gun, they shot him and he died on the spot. We were watching. They shot him many times, but there was this particularly big wound that he had on his leg,” a tearful Manto said.
Manto said after her father’s death they fled their village of Majola and went to stay at Machibi, where their mother was born.
Alias Baloyi, national head of the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD), confirmed there were 24 cases of alleged brutality reported from Port St Johns.
Baloyi said progress on the investigations would be presented to the minister in due course, and appealed to the community to report cases of abuse by police to the ICD.
He said the ICD’ s mandate was to investigate cases of misconduct against members of the South African Police Service (SAPS).
But Mthethwa said lack of evidence was hampering investigations in some of the cases.
He said the government was gravely concerned about the allegations of ill-treatment of civilians by police.
Ward councillor Kayo Marini, who alleged that his uncle was also killed by members of the NIU, said police needed to be taken to task for their actions.
“We are not saying that they should not raid and fight crime but the way they do it is questionable.”
He likened the NIU style of operation to that of the security police of the apartheid era.
“We will do all in our power to resolve this issue of Port St Johns.
“We want the community to live in peace,” Mthethwa said.
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