‘Humiliation’ of white police Captain, Police General to be prosecuted via SATodayNews
‘Humiliation’ of white police Captain, Police General to be prosecutedThe National Prosecuting Authority has finally decided to prosecute a current serving police general who allegedly humiliated the 53-year-old Capt. Riana Stander and others in 2016 on charges of crimen injuria. The alleged crime took place in November 2016 when the accused visited the Police Academy in Oudtshoorn and made remarks about the appearance of Stander and other training personnel.
She inter alia answered her own question as to what was wrong with the people on the stage by saying that they were too whiteStander opened a case docket in November 2016. Mainly because of the trauma and stress brought about by this incident Stander has been declared medically unfit to serve and is no longer employed by the SAPS.
The NPA, however, refused to prosecute whereafter the Private Prosecution Unit was approached by Solidarity and Stander in 2019 to privately prosecute the accused. The Director of Public Prosecutions in Cape Town initially, and in writing indicated that there was not prima facie proof of crimen injuria.
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