Police raids at Mashaba's behest slammed

Police officers sieze generators that are suspected of being stolen during a raid on a hijacked building as part of a raid on Nugget Street in Johannesburg on 23 June 2017. The raids were part of a drive by Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula's visit to gain an appreciation for the Operational Command Centre. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia

The country’s apex court has declared legislation under which the police in 2017 and 2018 carried out a series of “cruel, degrading and invasive” raids in downtown Johannesburg – without any warrants – to be constitutionally invalid. Last June, a full bench of the High Court in Johannesburg ruled in favour of the almost 3 000 residents who were affected by the 2017 and 2018 raids – represented before it by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa – and found the operations were authorised unlawfully.

“A home is more than brick and mortar, it is often a place of comfort, safety, and the keystone of a functional society. The background to this application illuminates, in living colour and grim reality, the lived experiences of the applicants, for whom this comfort and safety was disregarded through a sustained search and seizure campaign by the respondents,” read the opening of Friday’s majority judgment, penned by Justice Nonkosi Mhlantla.

To hell with the judges paid by foreigners, they can go jump! Raids are coming back! Beneficiaries of illegal activities won't stop Fixing of this Country

To hell with the courts in this case, constitution needs to be amended in any case to fit with current times.

I'm struggling to understand this

Our judges are becoming a problem in this country. I am not one of Zuma's supporters but when he said judiciary is the problem he was telling the truth.

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