In the Independent online today:
A Pretoria woman is fighting for her life in hospital after being brutally assaulted by Sunnyside police officers.
The assault, part of which was photographed, involved plainclothes policemen attacking a prostitute.
Pretoria News photographer Herbert Matimba started photographing the attack but was forced to flee after police turned their attention to him.
He spent the night in hiding to prevent police confiscating his photographs.
Paramedics, who rushed to attend to the woman who lost consciousness after an apparent "epileptic fit", were spotted carrying the woman's diminutive body on a stretcher to an ambulance - her blue sandals and pink handbag wedged beneath her feet.
Uche Kalu said he witnessed the attack on the woman outside Malet Flats where he lives.
"It was extremely brutal. I had just bought cigarettes from a vendor on the corner of Johann and Arcadia streets outside our block of flats, when I heard women screaming.
"As I turned around, I saw two policemen grabbing two women and throwing them to the ground before grabbing one of the women and pushing her into the back of the police van. As one of the policemen pushed the woman into the van the other tried to grab hold of the other woman, who began fighting back," said Kalu.
"That was when one of the policemen grabbed her by the head and began smashing her head against the van's back doors. The woman fell to the ground where she was kicked in the head and stomach.
"I could hear the policemen swearing before one of them picked her up and began strangling her.
"She was just hanging in his arms as he dragged her across the pavement and threw her against the van several times before she started convulsing and shaking," he said.
Kalu said that as people began screaming, a photographer began taking pictures.
"When the policemen saw him they told him to stop before trying to grab him. I yelled at him to run and he did. I do not know where he went but I could see the policemen searching all the flat floors, waking people up as they looked for him.
"It is ridiculous. A policeman is meant to arrest criminals. If someone is shooting at a policeman then they should shoot back but they have no right to beat up someone who is not threatening them."
Matimba's girlfriend, Mpule Mashiane, said she had been terrified.
"I heard Herbert park his car, but when he did not come inside, I went to look for him.
"As I opened the front door, there were two policemen and a policewoman standing outside.
"They pushed me aside and began opening cupboards and looking under the bed, screaming at me to tell them where Herbert was.
"When I said I did not know, they took my cellphone and tried to phone him and told me I must tell him to surrender and come with them to the police station.
"When I asked them what had happened they said he had taken an illegal photo of a 'patient' they were trying to help and that he must surrender or else they would arrest him," she said.
Nomsa Zulu, who hid Matimba, said she had been terrified and had not known what was happening.
"I was talking to friends when a photographer ran to us and pleaded for help.
"When he told us what happened I rushed him to my room.
"We could hear policemen walking up and down our passage banging on doors screaming for him to surrender.
"I was scared that they would find him and hurt him," said Zulu.
Tshwane Emergency Services spokesperson Johan Pieterse confirmed that medics had taken the seriously injured woman to Pretoria Academic Hospital after they received an anonymous telephone call for help saying that a woman was having an "epileptic fit".
A paramedic said the woman had suffered severe head, neck and internal injuries as well as severe bruising.
A Pretoria Academic Hospital nurse said the woman had sustained severe trauma as a result of a serious assault.
She said the injuries could not have been caused by an epileptic fit.
"It is as though someone has bashed her on the head with a heavy object," said the nurse.
Pretoria police spokesperson Inspector Anton Breedt said that the allegations of intimidation against Matimba would be investigated as well as any other wrongdoing which had led to the assault.
So there we have it folks. The Robert McBride mentality seems to be spreading through our police force. Our cops appear to love beating up the defenceless at every opportunity they get. If they are not smashing in some defenceless woman's head, they are blowing up kids.
To the international readers of this blog. These are the SAME PEOPLE WHO WILL BE PROTECTING YOU IN 2010 at the FIFA Soccer World Cup. Our "president" Mr Mbeki is a wonderful toothless wonder of a president when it comes to dealing with these matters. First he says there is no crime problem, then he says there is a crime problem, and then he says there is a not a crime problem. How silly is this chap we call "President". He can not even control his own police force.
If you think this is an isolated incident you are indoctrinated. My girlfriend and I were discussing the amount of time we have seen police brutality against innocent citizen. We counted 3 times that we had seen it ourselves, and about another 4 reports from close friends we trust.
I remember once incident outside a small pub in a town called East London, where the police were called in to find who had broken into one of the cars parked outside. They rounded up all the poor people and started beating them in a manner that made me very sick. When I tried to confront the officers in regards to this, they threatened to beat me up if I did not walk away.
The police in this country are becoming daily more and more dangerous to have to deal with. The Metro cops being about the most corrupt of the bunch... I would say even worse than the Transkei police. I have spoken to many illegal immigrants taking refuge in our country, and all of them have told me they get stopped by Metro Police in Johannesburg and have to pay R1000 "spot fines". If they do not pay, they are threatened with assault and then loaded up and sent to our already overburdened jail.
Lets face reality here people. It looks like our cops are in cahoots with the criminals on all levels. Jackie Selebi is a perfect example of this. He is under investigation for the infamous Brett Kebble murder, and he is under investigation for his alleged involvements with one of South Africa's biggest criminal syndicate leaders. If you are wondering who Jackie Selebi is... well he is our national police commissioner. Apparently the head of the police force, and the head of the criminal world were just, "friends" who met often, even though Selebi new Algotti was under investigation.
Oh yeah, and Selebi... hows that stolen car you are driving around doing? At least you know it did not cost you an arm and a leg. Just a life.
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