Judging by evidence presented in the trial of three Eldorado Park police officers — Caylene Whiteboy, Simon “Scorpion” Ndyalvane and Vorster Netshiongolo — it’s fair to say that in South Africa, the poor are neither to be seen nor heard.
The trio are accused of the fatal shooting of Nathaniel Julies outside his home in Eldorado Park, Gauteng, on 26 August last year. Testimony in the trial has rekindled questions about the police service’s heavy-handedness in public order exercises and the ease with which police officers attempted to plant evidence to absolve themselves of murder. More importantly, however, should be the conversation about what happened after the boy was gunned down.
The impunity with which the police operate on a daily basis has been laid bare time and again, even before Andries Tatane’s death in 2011 during a service delivery protest in Ficksburg in the Free State or the SAPS-style public order policing we witnessed in Marikana. The extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic may have jolted the public into awareness, but public trust in those asked to enforce the law has been waning for some time — with good reason. According to the Victims of Crime survey for 2017-18, published by Statistics South Africa, public approval of the police was at 54.2%, a drop of 10% over seven years.
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