Police haven't made a clean break with apartheid past
For 26 years into democracy, the relationship of the state police to the black poor people has been an ambiguous one in SA.
Ambiguous in a sense that we never know in our communities if the police are in our midst to protect us or to maintain order or just to instill fear, torture and killing...
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