#changethestory: Shades of apartheid in treatment of landless
By Opinion
by Lorenzo Davids
The current treatment of black and coloured township dwellers and landless people by the SAPS and the metro police is akin to persecution.
From how the landless are engaged through to how ordinary maskless black people are sjambokked, the entire experience leaves one with a sense of a people being persecuted.
The way the police go about their policing duties is similar to everything we experienced under apartheid. In 1984, after helping Mozambican flood victims that streamed into South Africa after tropical storm Domoina, I was arrested just outside Warmbad (Bela-Bela) and detained for travelling in a car with white people.