Police ordered to pay R5m over 2011 wrongful arrest

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Johannesburg - Police have been ordered to pay R5 million as damages to an Eastern Cape man that was arrested for no reason whatsoever in August 2011 and only released five months later.

Nkululeko Msongelwa was arrested at a tavern where he was enjoying himself with his girlfriend and friends. Police arrived and ordered the patrons to face the wall with their hands up and bodily searched them.

He was told that he was under arrest, but no reason was given.

Msongelwa made these submissions before Judge Bantubonke Tokota at the Mthatha High Court.

Police did not dispute any of his evidence before Judge Tokota.

Represented by attorney Wycliff Thobela Mnqandi, police closed their case without leading any evidence.

The arrest was only the beginning of Msongelwa’s ordeal that ended on 12 January 2012, when he was released without being charged.

He was shot on the ankle during the arrest as he resisted. While bleeding, he was handcuffed and thrown on the back of a police van and sustained a fractured ankle.

Msongelwa was transported to the Mandela hospital where he was detained under armed police guard.

There he was handcuffed throughout the night and the handcuffs would only be removed when going to the toilet.

Friends and family would visit him in the presence of the police. From the hospital, he was taken to Mqanduli police station where he was detained in the police cell. His ankle had still not healed.

He testified that the cell was small and they were made to lie on thin mattresses. The inmates ill-treated him, he told Judge Tokota. Other inmates were made to frog-jump and were slapped if they refused.
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More at : https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-af...to-pay-r5m-over-2011-wrongful-arrest-45206530
 
A big part of your job as a journalist, Mr. I Hate Colonialism Nkosi, is to write. You should learn how to write in English if that is the language you prefer to be published in.

Journalism hasn't gone to the dogs. More like the other way around.

Oh yeah, sniffles for the guy that got arrested. Good pay out for 5 months hard graft...
 
Datura said:
A big part of your job as a journalist, Mr. I Hate Colonialism Nkosi, is to write. You should learn how to write in English if that is the language you prefer to be published in.

Journalism hasn't gone to the dogs. More like the other way around.

Oh yeah, sniffles for the guy that got arrested. Good pay out for 5 months hard graft...
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What the
Meds?
 
Ponderer said:
What the
Meds?
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I am trying to read an article by a published "journalist" and can't make it half way through without finding grammatical errors.

It annoys the living schit out of me. Every single article I have that this racist twat has written is full of them. How difficult is it to get someone to proof read it for you if you don't have the time to do it yourself.

Sorry, some things just annoy the living daylights out of me and bad journalism is one of them.
 
Datura said:
I am trying to read an article by a published "journalist" and can't make it half way through without finding grammatical errors.

It annoys the living schit out of me. Every single article I have that this racist twat has written is full of them. How difficult is it to get someone to proof read it for you if you don't have the time to do it yourself.

Sorry, some things just annoy the living daylights out of me and bad journalism is one of them.
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Breathe.
Chill.
It's Friday.
 
The writer of this article definitely failed English .
 
Datura said:
A big part of your job as a journalist, Mr. I Hate Colonialism Nkosi, is to write. You should learn how to write in English if that is the language you prefer to be published in.

Journalism hasn't gone to the dogs. More like the other way around.

Oh yeah, sniffles for the guy that got arrested. Good pay out for 5 months hard graft...
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That is the editors job. Not the journalists.
 
As of late, many (but not all) of the police are the crooks.
The honest ones get shot/murdered/killed/assassinated, and the crooked ones get promoted.
 
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