Women
Protesting Police Brutality South Africa
2013
Outraged celebrities will
take to Cape Town’s streets tomorrow to protest against an incident that saw
police officials smashing a blind busker’s guitar.
Anti-police brutality
protesters will gather at St Georges Mall near Greenmarket Square at 1pm.
Members of the city’s arts and entertainment scene expected to attend include
musicians Andy Lund and Farryl Purkiss, with comedian Paul Snodgrass in tow.
Sama-winning local
guitarist Tony Cox has offered to donate a guitar to the stricken man.
Yesterday morning, busker
Lunga Goodman Nono (51) was manhandled by five metro policemen in full view of
pedestrians in St Georges Mall, a popular central city tourist haunt.
A crowd of traumatised
onlookers tried to intervene while the police officers broke Nono’s guitar.
They put him in the back of a police van and drove off.
Nono is said to have
contravened a bylaw over permissible busking hours in the area.
Jean-Pierre Smith, mayoral
committee member for safety and security, said he had disregarded regulations,
but they would investigate whether his treatment had been “inappropriate”.
A video of the incident
went viral, prompting Rolling Stone magazine to set up a fund to buy the blind
busker a new instrument. The magazine reported today that local acoustic
guitarist Tony Cox had offered to give Nono a new guitar.
