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Thursday, 3 March 2011
SA cops are blue thugs with badges
13:47 | 
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A Stuijt |
March 4 2011 - The Independent Complaints Directorate has opened an investigation into the violence-driven police raid against the hapless patrons of the 24-hour Catz Pyjamas Bistro in Melville in late February. Various cops were suspended pending the investigation after 'shocked senior police officers' had viewed a video-recording of the attack. All victims and witnesses were asked to contact investigating officer Chris De Jager on 011220 1500 or 082 325 6463.
On Feb 27 2011, Rapport newspaper published a video from a South African police-raid carried out against the patrons at Catz Pyjamas Bistro in Mellville, South Africa. It shows the increasingly criminal* ANC-regime ‘s heavily-armed cops storming in, yelling loudly, kicking patrons off their chairs and onto the floors. Unresisting patrons were getting kicked and beaten by police. Patrons then were forced downstairs, where twelve men and one woman were dumped into two police-vehicles. The 13 people were only released from Brixton police station at 15:00 on Saturday. Apparently they were being charged with ‘resisting arrest’. The magistrate threw the case out of court and referred it for investigation to the Independent Complaints Directorate instead.
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“There are no human rights left in South Africa with those thugs in blue with their helmets, guns and badges…” Legal Ermelo pub owner, raided three times within two months…
- Ermelo, Carolina, Melville… it’s clearly a pattern: legally-registered pubs which adhere to the liquor-laws are being raided repeatedly by uniformed, helmeted, heavily armed black cops who manhandle, rob and body-search the patrons in a massive terror-campaign which leaves thousands of illegal shebeens and illegal liquor-outlets untouched… these black cops even touch the sexual parts of female patrons and order them to do push-ups for their own entertainment…
A pub-owner in Ermelo - too scared of reprisals to publish his name - wrote a hard-hitting letter to the news media describing how a large-contingent of helmeted cops with military-assault guns burst into his pub three times: robbing the patrons, body-searching the female customers, touching their sexual parts and forcing the women to do push-ups for their own entertainment. And these raids were allegedly approved and attended by the local ANC-MEC for safety and security-liaison, Vusi Shongwe.The Ermelo pub owners said many legal pubs are being targetted while illegal shebeens and illegal liquor outlets are ignored.
He writes to Censorbugbear-Reports: "I am writing this story expressing my big disappointment in the SAPS - which is supposed to serve and protect the community. In November in Carolin
a, there was a raid by the blue thugs,” he wrote.pic: foreign-owned shops also were looted by socalled rioters in Wesselton, Ermelo: and the cops just stood and watched…These riots erupted in Wesselton near Ermelo after residents accused Vusi Shongwe’s local exec-committee of manipulating the nomination process; of nepotism, sex-for-jobs, bribery-for-jobs and corruption.
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Pub owner: ‘During the township riots the cops attacked the legal pubs again on Feb 11 shooting the patroNs with rubber bullets…
He continued: “ This incident was followed by raids on our pub in Ermelo on December 10 and again in early January. Then during the start of the township riots in Ermelo (pic left) the SA Police attacked us again enmasse on February 11. This time they even touched the sexual parts of the female patrons and forced them to do push-ups.” "Clearly, the same (legal) pub owners are always targetted while the owners of the illegal shebeens are being left alone: In Wesselton they even shot the pub-patrons with rubber bullets for no reason whatsoever. I heard that after they did this they ran out of rubber-bullets when there were riots there the next day.
ANC-MEC Vusi Shongwe stood there and watched:
"The police's pattern in Ermelo is to enter enmasse and with force, they approach the patrons, body-search them for no reason; stealing their cellphones, money and other personal belongings. The customers, staffers and some owners also were assaulted, insulted and the male cops also (illegally) searched the women, who were assaulted by these thugs in blue uniforms and their sexual parts touched. The honorably MEC Mr. Vusi Shongwe was actively involved with these raids during this so-called 'special cleanup operation'. He allowed this brutality and invasion of the private rights of citizens to happen while he stood there, watching.
It almost seemed like bank robbery:
"It almost seemed like bank robbery: the blue-uniformed thugs arrived at all the sites wearing big guns and helmets - their faces hidden behind riot-glass panels so that they could not be identified by their victims. They ordered the patrons not to look at their faces: "or they would not see tomorrow'.
“They also damaged the interiors, breaking chairs, standing on pool tables, bumping tables over with drinks which had already been paid for. This cost the pub-owners a lot of money to replace. Often, people visit the pubs with their friends even if they do not consume alcoholic beverages - they only join their friends. These raids thus cost a lot of money to keep our doors open, customers now are too frightened to come back to visit these sites. "Meanwhile there are expenses and salaries to be paid, rent, insurance, security. But what do these cops know about running a business?
There are no human rights left in SA:
"There are no human rights left in South Africa: the upholders of law and order now are the criminals: they are above the law, with their guns and badges. The sites that were targeted are in fact businesses; they create jobs, they boost the economy. These places are there for entertainment, and stop patrons from drinking in public. We try to keep our customers safe inside our pubs. We are the citizens of South Africa and these blue-uniformed thugs forgot who the people are who actually contribute to paying their salaries.
"Then the next day, Saturday-night at 11h00 three of these thugs returned to those sites they had raided, this time in civilian clothing, drinking very expensive whiskey like Johnnie Walker Black - obviously paid for with blood-money. They believed they would not be recognised. They also demanded that the pub-owners break the law for them by extending their legal drinking-hours, saying they were 'tired and wanted relaxation and entertainment".
"Who do they think they are to make and break the laws of this country as they go along? In Gauteng, which we presume is still int he same country, members of the public can buy liquor from bottle-stores on Sundays but not in Mpumalanga province: different provinces, same country... A tavern-owner in Carolina told us that while they were being harassed by these thugs, they were also told that they 'will clean up in Mpumalanga.' All this was premeditated by this socalled MEC. .
"Why do they concentrate only on certain outlets which have legal licenses and which stay within the law? We are clearly being victimised by the SAPS. Or do they only harass pubs which have no CCTV cameras? Why not also harass the many illegal shebeens, all those unregistered outlets, and clean them up instead of harassing those of us who have gone through the entire process of obtaining liquor licenses and try our best to comply with the law?
We urge the president of this country to urgently investigate these raids which are ruining our small business enterprises. This has become very serious and needs urgent attention.That MEC must be investigated including the people who are his blue-uniformed army of thugs. Is this MEC another Mugabe - or is this a second Zimbabwe?” he CONCLUDED his letter – which he had also sent to the Afrikaans newspaper Beeld shortly after the raid. It was not published there thus far.
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Policing the Police…
Eblockwatch cellphone buddies keep in constant touch. They can also listen in and record cellphone conversations with crooked cops and armed thugs with Eblockwatch’s Policing the Police feature.
Cellphones, pitted against AK47s, R14-military assault rifles and 9mm police-issue handguns - while the SA authorities also are confiscating taxpayers’ legal arms in large numbers but leaving the vast, illegal township arsenals untouched... The SA authorities refer to this civil warfare as ‘ordinary crime’.
Families and businesses barricade themselves behind high-voltage electric fencing, burglar bars, barbed-wire across the roofs and gardens… and many family members taking turns with nightly guard-duty. White women and girls are warned not to drive alone in their cars: increasingly criminal cops reportedly pull them over and rape them. It’s all part of normal life in South Africa. The cops are becoming the criminals. Whites are targetted just because they’re white.
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Policing the Police: Eblockwatch’s interlinked community-safety approach by cellphone
The very first cell-phone security-based company in South Africa was launched a decade ago by Andre Snyman. He called it eblockwatch.co.za. This network has spread into all fields of security-endeavours: they even keep an eye on the country’s few remaining protected rhinos to make certain they don’t get poached (more than 460 rhinos were poached in SA last year alone). A more ominous development – indicating the rapid rate at which the SA policing services are criminalising, is his ‘Policing the Police’ cellphone security programme. Pics: Many SA whites such as Shawn van Heerden (left) of Lyttleton on Feb 18 2011, now fall victim to increasingly criminal cops. In his case his fiancee Nickie Bonthuys was arrested during an illegal raid at a bistro and taken to Lyttleton police station. http://www.farmitracker.com/reports/view/1075. There also are many incidents reported of large gaggles of cops, helmeted and with highpowered R14 attack-carbines, storming into night-spots and restaurants frequented by whites to terrorise, rob and sexually assault the women. Many white women such as Martie Olivier (right) also are pulled over by policing-officials and raped. She and her husband Sarel were subjected to this abuse by two Kempton Park cops who arrested him on a trumped-up charge, and raped Martie in the back of their family car while her husband was being taken to the police station. http://www.sondag.co.za/artikels/Nuus/COPS-HT-VERKRAG
Andre’s advice to members:
“Ïf you are pulled over by the police please dial this number, the conversation between you and the police is recorded and saved on our server. We ask that you try to provide as much detail as possible during the conversation:- Describe the police car (make, model, colour, the number painted on the side of the car along with the registration number)
- Ask the police person for their name and badge number
- Mention the number of police officers
- Make it clear to the officer that you have just made a call to your friend to tell them where you are etc
- Describe your location and surroundings
“A note about the length of the call: as many people have been testing the service by simply dialling in and then hanging up we have set the system to only send out the email with the link to the recording if the call was longer than 5 seconds. This is to cut down on false alarm situations.
“The purpose of this service is:
- “To have evidence of the bogus cop or cop abusing their power
- “To have your four support members get the details of your situation via the recording
- “The mere fact that the police officer is aware of being recorded will encourage the correct behaviour …
Listen to this example recorded by an Eblockwatch member here - Listen to the Talk Radio 702 interview with Andre Snyman, 14 September 2010
*INCREASINGLY CRIMINALISED SA POLICING SERVICES:
INCREASINGLY CRIMINAL COPS:
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2011/02/100-pretoria-metrocops-are-convicted.html
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2011/02/vicious-sa-cops-raid-restaurant-video.html- 566 people died in police-custody last ten months of 2010:
- A total of 75 arrested people died in police custody during the apartheid era up to 1994 (source: Truth and Reconciliation Commission). During the last ten months of the year 2010 alone, 566 arrested people died in police-custody under the ANC-regime in ONE YEAR ALONE: source:“Parties demand probe into 566 deaths in police-custody” Sowetan: journalists Canaan Mdletshe, Mhlaba Memela and Sibongile Mashaba, 23 Nov 2010 http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2010/11/23/parties-urge-probe-into-566-deaths
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