Police Brutality - Stellenbosch, South Africa - NIN

Police, carrying firearms and wearing Kevlar vests, burst into 3 Pubs around midnight and assaulted several students, sprayed them with mace, took their cellphones and ordered them to delete cellphone pictures of the raid.

Police officers also reportedly put their hands in some womens' underwear to search for drugs.
"I understand they have a job to do and I always accommodate them. But this time they just burst in, assaulted my customers and hit me in the face when I said I was the owner. They also pointed guns at us.

One student, who asked to remain anonymous, had a blue eye and several bruises on his face, after being kicked four times in the face, allegedly by a police officer, after he and his friends were ordered to lie on the ground in the pool room in Die Mystic Boer.

"They told us to stop drinking and smoking. My friend lit up a cigarette and they slapped him in the face. I yelled: "Dude, what the f**k are you doing to my friend? That's when they hit me and kicked me four times in the face. Then they sprayed mace or pepper spray in my eyes." Niel Bekker, a journalism graduate and son of Koos Bekker, the chief executive of Naspers, said he saw a man from the Netherlands who had been invited to speak at the Woordfees and his Belgian friend confront the police.

The Belgian man and his girlfriend, who tried to intervene, were knocked against a wall.

He also saw how a girl, who was having an asthma attack and who tried to use her phone, was hit with a baton. Stefan Sessa, the marketing manager at Cia Media, also at Die Mystic Boer, said police hit him and threw him to the ground. Johan Blom, who was at Springbok Pub with his friends, said a police officer shouted at everyone to "put away your f**king phones" and when he asked her why she was swearing at him, he had pepper spray sprayed into his eyes.

"I had to rely on my friend to lead me home, because I was blinded." Bevan Williams, who was also in the Springbok Pub, said his doctor confirmed his eardrum had ruptured when a police officer hit him after he tried to take a picture of him.

Asked why the police were armed and dressed in riot gear, police spokesperson Elliot Sinyangana said they had to be "prepared for anything". He confirmed that only a small quantity of drugs was found.
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[rbolapornostar]

At last, a sensible way to deal with students

[superman737373]

So who built all the power stations, hospitals, roads, schools, infra-structures? Who did the first heart transplant in the world, who built the best helicopter in the world(red valk)? Im not talking about the racism or the belielves of the AWB as a party, but saying they dont have any brains? Fuck off! You dont have any brains!!

[heinejvanas]

Jissus.

[Brownbilly29gmail]

Are u crazy?i live in sa?are u mad? saying it is rite to treat a human like that?u try lying there being abused like that...South African police don't have any respect for human rights!!!!!

[Shaftsus]

@rbolapornostar hmmm it took you over a month to come up with that reply, I believe your story.

[rbolapornostar]

@Shaftsus The sad thing is that I did get into your college with an IQ lower than my shoe size and I was still top of the class.

[andycapp52]

so you saying its ok to do drugs in those type of clubs? i think the police did a very good job, it was unfortunate for the people thats not druggies, that is y i pay tax, for the police to minimize drug dens like this.

[Shaftsus]

@rbolapornostar Fuck up lol just because you couldn't get into college with an IQ lower than your shoe size....

[ChristiaanL14]

@MartijndeGraaf1001 Those people they assaulted for nothing ,yeah their parents pay these cops salleries to catch real criminals - murderers, robbers, rapists, drug gangs, ect. Funny enough all their parents pay security companies for those protection services so what exactly is the point of the police in South Africa if they cannot even provide the basics of the police force ? (Protection) I say we should disband the SAPD completely and just privatise the entire safety of the country.

[HappyHookerTV]

Crazy...is all I can say. Sick and crazy. Get out of that country...btw, GREAT song!

BTW Don't they have some rapist to go after? It's not known as "the rape capital of the world" for nothing. Oh yeah, they're prob doing all the raping!

[grtwhtbnr]

@RaNgErRiCk721 is that coming straight from the underground?