South Africans will not be cowed by Bheki Cele’s goons

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OPINION: It is fair to say that in every respect, Bheki Cele seems to be modelling himself on apartheid monster BJ Vorster, writes Michael Donen.

“If they do not listen, they must feel!” declared a South African prime minister, responding to police brutality. When he said these words, in June 1976, the police’s victims were student protesters, not women. The minister in question was apartheid monster BJ Vorster, who later became president.

Public violence is the label that the apartheid regime spuriously attached to public protest against it. Both declarations were purportedly made to protect the public. Both were used by the police to the opposite effect. In protest against apartheid education, the children of Ashton boycotted school classes. They gathered outside their school.

They braved a cordon of angry police dogs around a barricaded court, a magistrate who constantly threatened them with imprisonment for

 

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