Lest we forget our brutal past
Apr 18, 2021
4 minutes
DON MAKATILE don.makatile@inl.co.za
THOBILE MATHONSI
African News Agency (ANA)
MCC (Meqheleng concerned community)
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IF THE likes of Bantu Biko, Ahmed Timol and Neil Aggett were to wake up today, they are likely to suffer a heart attack from realising South Africans in large numbers (read black people) still die at the hands of the police.
But Gareth Newham, the head of the Justice and Violence Programme at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) disagrees with this grim picture.
The question posed to Newham does not even include the Marikana Massacre, where the post-1994 police shamlessly behaved like their Apartheid-era counterparts.
The question is about Ficksburg, Free State activist Andries Tatane, who was beaten to a pulp by the police, subsequently losing his
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