Fingo Festival 2012

Online Donations

Payments are facilitated by PayFast, a South African payment gateway similar to PayPal. We appreciate ANY AMOUNT.
Donate:

Amount R

Who's Online

We have 127 guests online

Subscribe to News Alerts

Khulumani Events

Home /  Truth & Memory /  December 10: Anniversar​y of the Adoption of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading treatment
Monday, 12 December 2011 08:19

December 10: Anniversar​y of the Adoption of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading treatment

Written by 
Members of the Cato Manor organised crime unit celebrate just hours after killing five robbery suspects on the N3 highway near Camperdown on January 21 2009. The members with visible faces (not blurred) are, from left, Captain Eugene van Tonder, Captain Mossie Mostert and Captain Anton Lokum Members of the Cato Manor organised crime unit celebrate just hours after killing five robbery suspects on the N3 highway near Camperdown on January 21 2009. The members with visible faces (not blurred) are, from left, Captain Eugene van Tonder, Captain Mossie Mostert and Captain Anton Lokum Credit: www.timeslive.co.za

The article entitled Shoot to Kill: Inside a South African Police Death Squad (Sunday Times, 11 Dec 2011) reveals that this unit operates under the ultimate control of the province's Hawks boss, Major-General Johan Booysen, previously head of the organised crime unit.

This unit has allegedly committed scores of assassinations, some in retaliation for suspected cop killings and others related to ongoing taxi wars.

Over the past three years, KwaZulu-Natal police have killed 527 suspects during the commission of a suspected crime, an escape, an investigation or arrest. This is by far the highest in South Africa. Of this number of deaths, the Cato Manor organised crime unit accounted for 45 and the suspects appear to have been executed.

Read 406 times Last modified on Monday, 12 December 2011 08:35
Published in Truth & Memory
More in this category: « Khulumani represented at the Book Discussion by Dr Motsoko Pheko at the African Literature Bookshop, Johannesburg Dr Martin Luther King Day, January 16 and its relevance for Khulumani »

Leave a comment

Make sure you enter the (*) required information where indicated.
Basic HTML code is allowed.

back to top

WHO WE ARE

Who we are

WHAT WE KNOW

What we know

WHAT WE WANT

What we want

WHAT WE NEED

What we need

WHO WE BECOME

Who we become

Copyright © 2012. Khulumani Support Group Support Group.
Webmaster : pierreleroux.co.za
S5 Logo