Brutality of the men in blue

04 November 2009 - 02:00
By unknown

l October 11: Police shoot and kill Olga Kekana after suspecting she and her companions were hijackers. Her friends, Sophie Kgarake and Andrew Singo were shot in the abdomen and the right hand and thigh respectively.

l October 11: Police shoot and kill Olga Kekana after suspecting she and her companions were hijackers. Her friends, Sophie Kgarake and Andrew Singo were shot in the abdomen and the right hand and thigh respectively.

l October 30: Pretoria police spray a VW Golf with bullets, wounding the driver, after a car was reported hijacked.

l November 1: Police shoot and kill Kgothatso Ndobe of Atteridgeville after he panicked and ran away.

l September 30: We reported that cops fired bullets at toddlers while driving through Mashishing in Mpumalanga - while trying to disperse crowds during recent service delivery protests.

Our men in blue uniform allegedly:

l Fired two rubber bullets into three- year-old Neo Khumalo's forehead and cheek;

l Shot and hit Mongezi Maila, 6, above the right eye with a rubber bullet;

l Fired a live bullet into teenager Emily Madonsela's right cheek;

l Held Sfiso Nkosi to the ground and fired a bullet into his penis, another into his buttock and one under his arm;

l Shot Jacob Malakane dead; and

l Dragged Marcus Masilela, 38, out of his yard and shot him twice in the leg.