Monday, 27 August 2012

AmaBerete are terrorising the townships of South Africa!

During Bheki Cele's reign as the head of the police force invented the unite where by policemen in berets instead of hats like other units would work closely with the people. Their jobs are to protect the society and make sure that there is order in the townships reducing the crime rate.

People in the townships in South Africa don't have it as easy as people in the suburban areas, to be honest, when power or water shortages start, they are the first to be affected, that can go for days without any notifications, warnings or any form of communication from the departments that run these necessities, it been that way since from the apartheid, so people are sort of immune to it. people just make the best of what they have now, their freedom, making money, working or generally doing their day-to-day routines as they please.



The South African townships has a lot of problems, or rather things that are not going well but the  current problem that people have is the the manner in which police terrorise our township. the whole point of having police in the country is so we could have people to keep the country safe, enforce the law and arrest those who go against the law, but somehow people have lost faith in the SAPS (South African Police Service), policemen beat, rape, steal and demand bribes from the citizens. Didn't apartheid end and democracy begin in 1994? what were people voting for? for this? I don't think so. People voted for the ANC to gain freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to do what they want, whenever as long as their rights do not infringe on the other person's rights.

AmaBerete (the men in berets) are brutal they sets specific time people should walk in the streets at  night, they burge in tavern, bars, shebeens and just search people without warrants, just a week ago on 3rd degree a footage of the beating and searching people was taken and shown tin national television, police brutality needs to stop! although those people were drinking but that didn't mean they did not have rights, amaBerete need to be either stopped or go back to school and learn the laws that South African citizens have because by the look of things they do not have a clue... This is a democratic country, people cannot be mistreated just because you are police, you enforce the law but that doesn't mean that you are above it.

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