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beaten to death in Durbanville SAPS cell

Afrikaner dad of 3, Eben Meyer 48, beaten to death in Durbanville SAPS cell, picked up comatose condition outside pub

13:30 Apr 21 2012 Durbanville

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Afrikaner Eben Meyer, 48, father of three, beaten to death in Durbanville WC SAPS cell Saturday April 21 2012: worked for courier-company near Ysterplaat Air Force Base.

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related: ‘white SA men are often arrested on trumped-up charges, dumped in police cells with black inmates and raped.’

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Picture: EBEN MEYER WAS 'FALLING DOWN DRUNK' AT PUB WHERE POLICE ARRESTED HIM AT 10PM.

A local pub-customer sent Farmitracker this picture of Eben Meyer, taken slumped over at the pub just minutes before he was thrown out of the pub - indeed so drunk he could not walk, the photographer reports. Yet the SA police claimed Meyer had been 'beaten to death in a police cell' within half an hour of his arrest just after this photo was taken, claiming that he had 'had a fight with cellmates'.

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The photographer wrote us:

"This photo of Eben Meyer was taken at the Stones pub in Durbanville at 9:28pm 20April2012 were he was resting on his arms on the bar. He was thrown out about 9:40pm as he tried to stand up but he fell"...

The photographer wrote: "When I got to Stones at 9:20pm I saw the police patroling in the parking area at Stones. Eben Meyer was picked up by the police before 10:00pm when he was thrown out of Stones. He was so drunk but should have been taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. I still have the foto and the time and date when it was taken with my Black Berry."

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After his murder, the Cape Argus journalist Murray Williams interviewed Mr Meyer's fiancee, Durbanville woman Sylvia Hamman,writing that she was ' mourning the death of her fiancé Eben Meyer, 48, after he was beaten to death within half an hour of having been dumped in a police cell on Friday night with eight other men. The fiancee told the Cape Argus she last saw 48-year-old Eben Meyer on Friday morning when he set off to work at a courier company near Ysterplaat air force base. Some 18 hours later, she was informed by police that he had been beaten to death in a cell at Durbanville police station.

Police spokesman Andrè Traut told the Cape Argus on Monday Meyer "had been arrested during the early hours of Saturday morning for being drunk in public".

He was detained and placed in a cell with eight others. “Meyer was assaulted and succumbed as a result of his injuries." He claimed 'it appeared HE had an argument WITH OTHER MEN.' The 'incident' had occurred at around 1.30am within half an hour of his detention. “The two suspects, who were also being detained with him in the same cell for being drunk, are now facing a murder charge,” Traut said.The two suspects are due to make a court appearance in Bellville tomorrow.”

According to a report on Monday, Meyer had been at a well-known pub in Durbanville, and had been repeatedly kicked and hit by his fellow detainees in the police cell.

Hamman said she was “devastated” at the news of Meyer’s death and blamed police.

“It must be investigated. If the police had looked after his safety, he would not be dead today.”She said they had been due to marry in September.

A family member confirmed that Meyer had three children – Naomi, 24, Sonika, 22, and Inge, 17 – from a previous marriage. - Cape Argus http://www.iol.co.za April 23 2012. GOOGLE PAGE ATTACHED.

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Police Victimise Assaulted boy

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Karate kid' saves dad Gavin Reynolds from eight drunken black male attackers on Roodewal, Bloemfontein smallholdings: 2013-02-04 0Bloemfontein - A 15-year-old teenager saved his father from eight armed men who attacked them on their smallholding in Roodewal. Mark Reynolds, who has a brown belt in karate, told Volksblad that he fought so hard that he broke some of his fingers. “He is my hero. I would go to war with him,” said Gavin Reynolds of his son. Mark fought off the eight drunken men almost single-handedly after the group came onto the property and started harassing his father’s workers and their children. “One of the men came to me and made racist remarks and slapped my dog. He pushed his finger in Mark’s face. “Then Mark slapped him. The others jumped up and attacked us.

 Thank God he doesn’t have a black belt otherwise they would be dead.” ‘Moves I’ve never seen before’Reynolds said the men were drunk and armed with sticks and knives. The men broke about four sticks on his son’s back and also hit him on the head with a steel pipe, causing a head wound. When Reynolds ran away, he fell over the dog and the men started throwing rocks at him while he lying on the ground. His son came back with a gun and the men fled.Reynolds said he would’ve been dead had it not been for his son. “He hit them so hard that his hand is gone. I would’ve been dead if it hadn’t been for him and his karate. He showed some moves that I have never seen before.” ” He said police who later arrived at the smallholding didn’t take statements from him and were more interested in one of the men who was bitten by the dog. A police spokesperson said the incident would be investigated. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Karate-kid-saves-dad-from-attackers-20130204

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A man protests the South African police

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A man protests the South African police, who fired rubber bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas to disperse striking miners on October 27, 2012.

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Saturday, 28 May 2011

JAMES GELDART SHOT BY COPS IN 2008: STILL NO TRIAL…

 02:58 |  Posted by A Stuijt | 

“After crashing his car trying to flee from an unmarked car with three black gunmen who did not identify themselves as metro-cops, the Afrikaner high school boy played dead. He woke up from a coma days later in hospital: with severe gunshot wounds and facial injuries… “

On April 18 2008, James Geldart, then the headboy at the Afrikaans High School Brandwag in Boksburg, was accosted by a group of armed black men in a car and ordered to pull over.  He fled, terrified that the armed black men inside the unmarked car may be hijackers. They were Boksburg metro-cops, instead… but Geldart didn’t know that.

He crashed his car in his haste to flee – and pretended to play dead. He woke up in hospital with mysterious bullet wounds and severe facial injuries days later.  The City Times in Boksburg said in their article that he was in a coma for a few days.’ The three unnamed metro-cops charged with his attempted murder have managed to get the case postponed ever since. Their next court appearance is on June 28 2011.

Case has dragged since April 18 2008 – and the cops are still working: packing guns:

Three as yet still unnamed black Boksburg/Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police officers, charged with the attempted murder of the young Afrikaner, have ever since then, managed to get this case postponed repeatedly. And again, on May 26 2011 they appeared in Benoni Regional Court – still unnamed – and the case was once again postponed, this time to June 28.The officers' lawyers said they had ‘approached the Director of Public Prosecutions regarding the matter and were waiting to hear the outcome…’ the court heard. The three officers have been charged with attempted murder, and also with discharging a firearm in a built-up area and negligent use of a firearm.

Shortly after the young, unarmed, defenceless Afrikaner was shot inside his car under such inexplicable circumstances, the Boksburg metropolitian police spokesman Wilfred Kgasago assured the news media that: "The SAPS initiated investigations on the matter. Investigations were in-depth and proved convoluted and protracted. The sensitivity, as well as the gravity of the matter, debars the EMPD from commenting at this juncture, as it does not wish to say anything that could have a bearing on the case. Circumstances surrounding the case, as well as the stringent procedures that had to be adhered to in the process of investigations, necessitated that our internal investigations be put on hold until the courts finalise the matter."

Geldart has since moved to Durban. He was interviewed by City Times in 2010 after yet another postponement. He said at that time that he still bore  the scars of that Friday morning attack."I am happy that the matter is in court, it has been a while, so I am happy with the news," he reportedly said “I have been going for examinations and tests and need surgery for my facial injuries."

The three unnamed Boksburg metro-cops  first appeared in the Benoni Regional Court on Wednesday, September 15 2010 – more than two years after Geldart was shot. And the case has been dragging ever since – and these metrocops are still on duty, carrying guns…

http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/benoni/benoni-announcements-general?oid=96359&sn=Detail&pid=331&EMPD-officers-appear-at-the-Benoni-Regional-Court-for-attempted-murder

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Black Cops threaten White Policewoman – “Your time is short”

2013-03-23 - Rapport newspaper's journalist Vania van der Heever writes that Afrikaner SAPS warrant-officer Jennifer Renecke 37 fears for her life after she tried to intervene to stop four black constables allegedly beating up an arrested man, Jackie Ntuli 33 of Soshanguve, at the Wierdabrug police station in Centurion last Friday-night.

"I fear for my life. They can come for me at any moment,' she told Rapport Afrikaans weekly. She said that last Friday-day night she saw four police members bring in the arrested 'drunken' man and beating him up at the Wierdabrug police station office. She jumped in trying to stop the man, Jackie Ntuli 33 of Soshanguve, from being beaten further.

"Your time is short in this office bitch, if you open your mouth you will die,' she later read in a hand-written letter in English she received afterwards. She's been in the SAPS for the past 20 years but now is too terrified to go back to work. She has lodged a charge of intimidation against the four constables. "There's a tense atmosphere at my job because of my complaint. We work with firearms and I fear my colleagues can use one at any time against me,' she said. She's too terrified to go to sleep and has taken leave due to fear and stress.

"We work with firearms and I fear my colleagues can use one at any time against me.'... " Wierdabrug SAPS commander claims the CCTV did not work...'

She was quoted as saying: "I swore an oath to protect the public. The police has stolen so much of my life but I kept going because I love my work. This is the thanks I get after 20 years of faithful service,' she said. 

Every time she closes her eyes, she can hear the screams from Ntuli while he was being beaten up. "After he was taken to the hospital I climbed into my car and just sat and cried. I know the police will come for me. They will try and blacken my name to downgrade my evidence. But this time I will refuse to remain silent. I have told the station commander to look at the closed-circuit TV recordings from the charge office so that he can see Ntuli being assaulted. He told me the 'CCTV does not work'...

Wierdabrug commander SAPS col Moses Ndladla refuses to comment - but the office's spokesman SAPS capt Agnes Huma confirmed that Renecke had lodged formal charges against her four colleagues. 

Meanwhile Rapport 's journalist also traced the arrested man, Ntuli, to the Pretoria Central Prison - neither his dad Jacob Madisha 63 nor any other member of the family were able to locate him. After Ntuli had appeared in court last Tuesday on remand, he was taken to the Pretoria prison because he could not afford his bail. His family was never notified by the SAPS at Wierdabridge as they should have done, Rapport noted. 

Mr Madisha was delighted that the newspaper traced his son. "I thought my child was dead. The police said they had no record of my son at all,' he told Rapport. He went to the Wierdabrug policestation just a day earlier to enquire about his son's whereabouts. Ntuli has now also lodged a charge of assault against the  four police constables. "They will investigate Mr Ntuli's case,'  said Moses Dlamini, spokesman for the independent police investigation directorate'.

Entire article, in Afrikaans: http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Kollegas-dreig-polisievrou-Jou-tyd-raak-min-20130323

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AFRIKANER COP GETS DEATH-THREATS FROM COLLEAGUES

 07:58 |  Posted by A Stuijt | 

Afrikaner policewoman warrant officer Jennifer Renecke 37 threatened with her life -- after trying to protect an arrested black man Jackie Ntuli, 33, from being assaulted by four black police constables at Wierdabrug police station, Centurion, South Africa: 

"Your time is short in this office bitch, if you open your mouth you will die...'

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Safe stolen from police station

22 March 2013 16:50

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A safe has been stolen from the exhibit room of the Alberton police station.

Lieutenant colonel Lungelo Dlamini said the theft was discovered when the exhibit clerk reported for duty this morning.

It was either stolen last night, or early today.

“It is alleged that there was a break-in, where the main door and the burglar [bars] were damaged,” Dlamini said.

“The safe was then dragged out of the office and stolen. It is unknown what type of vehicle was used by the suspect(s) to remove the safe, but it may not fit into a sedan vehicle.

“At this stage, an audit is still being done at the exhibit room to establish the exact contents of the safe,” he said.

- Sapa

http://www.citypress.co.za/news/safe-stolen-from-police-station/

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Cop accused of dragging gets bail

21 March 2013 11:22

A policeman accused of dragging a man next to his vehicle has been released on bail by the Mmabatho Magistrates’ Court.

Sergeant Mbali Phetha threw his hands in the air when magistrate Seth Mmushi granted him R1 000 bail yesterday, Beeld reported.

He faces a charge of attempted murder.

The state did not oppose bail.

The court heard that Phetha lived within walking distance of the man he is accused of dragging, court interpreter Morgan Mohlala.

A senior investigator at the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, Bonisile Koliya, testified on Wednesday that Phetha and another officer were called to a tuck shop in Setlopo village, near Mmabatho, on March 7, after a young man and the shop’s owner had had an argument.

The man complained to Mohlala – who was nearby – that the police had harassed him.

Mohlala then told him to come to his house so he could explain to the youth how to lodge a complaint against the officers.

Phetha, sitting in the police van, overheard this and allegedly grabbed Mohlala by the neck and dragged him about 100m while driving.

“He was running alongside the police vehicle, but fell when Phetha accelerated. The vehicle went over his feet,” Koliya told the court.

Phetha is scheduled to appear in the Molopo Magistrates’ Court in Mmabatho on May 2.

He sang and danced outside the court after his release on bail, while supporters displayed placards proclaiming his innocence.

He has been suspended pending the outcome of an internal investigation.

- Sapa

http://www.citypress.co.za/news/cop-accused-of-dragging-gets-bail/

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Thousands of ‘tsotsi cops’ not dismissed

Loyiso Sidimba @City_Press26 March 2013 14:50

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Thousands of police officers have been criminally convicted but not dismissed from the SA Police Service, Parliament’s portfolio committee on police has heard.

The Institute of Security Studies’ governance, crime and justice division head Gareth Newham told the committee that South Africa could not rely on the criminal justice system to deal with the problem of “tsotsi cops”.

“There is evidence that the SAPS disciplinary system allows criminally violent officers to remain within the SAPS,” Newham said.

He cited the example of Warrant Officer Petrus Lefoka from Vaalwater, Limpopo, who was criminally convicted for severely assaulting a teenager and handed a suspended sentence of two months imprisonment, with the option of a R2 000 fine, suspended for five years.

Newham said an SAPS internal police disciplinary hearing fined Lefoka R500 and that he remains a cop despite a criminal conviction for brutality.

He said he was also concerned by the high number (792) of suspended dismissals.

Newham has suggested the establishment of a multi-disciplinary national police board to set objective standards for appointing and promoting police officers.

According to Newham, all police officers must be assessed against set criteria and should they fail to meet the standards they must be removed from positions of authority.

He said this should also apply to “starting at the top of the SAPS”.

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa defended police earlier, saying the majority of cops were dedicated to their jobs.

http://www.citypress.co.za/news/thousands-of-tsotsi-cops-not-dismissed/

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Opposition parties bemoan acquittal of Tatane cops

March 28 2013 at 04:18pm
By SAPA

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A video frame grab shows Andries Tatane after he was shot during unrest in Ficksburg, Free State, in 2011. He later died.

 Johannesburg - Opposition parties voiced disappointment at the acquittal of seven policemen in Ficksburg on Thursday.

"Unfortunately, this sends the message that the police can act with impunity," said Democratic Alliance justice spokeswoman Debbie  Schafer.

While the DA did not question the judgment, which acquitted the policemen accused of killing protester Andries Tatane, the party questioned who would be held accountable for his death.

"It would seem that the only possible remedy may be yet another civil claim against the police minister," Schafer said.

She said the DA would ask the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to explain the difficulties it had in prosecuting the policemen when it next appeared before the Justice Portfolio Committee. This was in the hope of avoiding similar outcomes in future cases.

Earlier, United Democratic Movement secretary general Bongani Msomi said the policemen's acquittal was a sad day for justice.

"It is said that justice is blind, but after having heard this verdict this phrase has new meaning," he said in a statement.

"Is this a sign of the times to come: violent individuals in our  police service who violate human rights and are not punished?"

The UDM was shocked by the ruling and conveyed sympathy to the Tatane family, Msomi said.

Ficksburg Regional Court magistrate Hein van Niekerk found the State could not prove its case of murder and assault beyond reasonable doubt.

Tatane died on April 13, 2011, after the police used rubber bullets and batons to subdue him during a service delivery protest in Ficksburg.

The case received huge media attention after footage of Tatane’s  alleged assault by police was broadcast on television.

The court held that Tatane was not an innocent protester. - Sapa

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/opposition-parties-bemoan-acquittal-of-tatane-cops-1.1493402

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Robert McBride wins drunk driving appeal

March 28 2013 at 03:55pm
By SAPA

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Former Ekhuruleni metro police chief Robert McBride. File picture: Cara Viereckl

 Johannesburg - Former Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride has won his appeal against a conviction of drunken driving and attempting to obstruct justice.

The High Court in Pretoria on Thursday concluded he was not guilty on all charges.

“The appeal against conviction on both counts is upheld,” Judges Cynthia Pretorius and Lettie Molopa-Sethosa said in their written judgment.

“The appellant is found not guilty on all charges and is discharged.”

McBride was arrested in 2006 after crashing his official car on the R511 following a Christmas party.

Earlier this month, the two judges reserved judgment in McBride's appeal against his conviction, as well as his five-year jail sentence.

In September 2011, a Pretoria regional magistrate sentenced McBride to two years imprisonment for driving under the influence of alcohol and an effective three years imprisonment for attempting to obstruct the course of justice.

Initially three of McBride's colleagues made statements supporting his version that he had not been drunk and did not leave the scene of the accident to evade justice.

However, five months later they testified that he had been heavily under the influence of alcohol and systematically set about covering this up with their assistance.

In his appeal, McBride argued the three former colleagues had themselves been intimidated into changing their story. They were under investigation by the Organised Crime Unit (OCU) in a separate attempted murder matter and had been offered indemnity in exchange for statements against him.

McBride had previously clashed with the OCU.

About a month before his colleagues changed their statements, he had written to the SA Police Service asking them to initiate an investigation into the possible involvement of some members of the OCU in cash-in-transit crimes.

In Thursday's judgment, Pretorius and Molopa-Sethosa wrote there was clear evidence that OCU members had manipulated the testimony of the three.

Describing the three as “self-confessed liars”, the judges said the magistrate had erred in finding their testimony credible.

There were “several strange aspects” to McBride's behaviour after the accident, such as trying to get medical certificates from a variety of doctors and driving to Durban to see a doctor.

The State had not proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt, the judges concluded.

“Although the appellant's action after the accident is suspect, it is not possible to draw the inference that the appellant was driving under the influence of intoxicating alcohol at the time beyond a reasonable doubt.” - Sapa

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/robert-mcbride-wins-drunk-driving-appeal-1.1493380#.UVU0exfLreA

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McBride off the hook in escort fracas

July 10 1999 at 12:01am 

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Senior Foreign Affairs official Robert McBride has been let off the hook again.

Western Cape Director of Public Prosecutions Frank Kahn has decided not to prosecute Mr McBride for any involvement in the fracas at the Cachet hostess agency on Cape Town's Foreshore in May, but the two men he was with will be prosecuted.

Mr McBride was in the company of controversial city security company owner Cyril Beeka and another man, Olaf Reucker, when they visited the hostess agency in the early hours of the morning.

Mr Beeka and Mr Reucker allegedly assaulted one of the employees, Jennifer Moreira.

Ms Moreira laid charges against the three men, including Mr McBride, without knowing their identities.

Mr Kahn said he could find no evidence linking Mr McBride to the assault, therefore a decision was made not to prosecute him.

However, he said Mr Beeka and Mr Reucker were to be charged with assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm and pointing a firearm.

The police's organised crime unit, which investigates protection rackets and drug sales at city nightclubs, earlier recommended that Mr McBride and the other two men be prosecuted.

Mr McBride has repeatedly denied any involvement in the alleged assault. He said he was sitting at the bar in the hostess club when the assault took place.

Mr McBride could not be contacted by the Saturday Argus for comment yesterday.

His wife Paula said, however, that they had not yet been notified by Mr Kahn's office in connection with the latest development.

The incident at the hostess club sparked huge controversy, with opposition parties calling for Mr McBride's dismissal.

Mr McBride has a history of brushes with the law.

He was arrested in Mozambique last year on charges of gun-running and spent seven months in a Maputo prison but was cleared of all charges earlier this year.

He claimed that he had been framed by South African police agents and that he had been investigating illegal gun running as part of his work for the Gun Control Commission.

Mr McBride first hit the headlines when he was a member of the African National Congress's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe and was sentenced to death for the 1986 bomb attack on Magoo's bar in Durban in which three women were killed.

He escaped the gallows when his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

He was released from prison amid controversy in 1992 in terms of a deal between the National Party government and the ANC.

Mr McBride currently works in an after-hours operations communications room in the Department of Foreign Affairs.

He was removed from his position as head of the Asia desk after his arrest in Mozambique.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/mcbride-off-the-hook-in-escort-fracas-1.4723#.UVUw_RfLreA

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Idle Police Captain Fired over RAPE