The legal representatives for some of the victims confirmed that none of the officers have officially been charged, despite damning footage showing their faces and the assault.
The lawyer representing L’vaughn Fisher, the 25-year-old infantryman assaulted by members of the police’s VIP protection unit last weekend, says he is suing the police service for a million rand...From World War 1 to present-day cosmopolitan South Africa and beyond, the Sunday Times has been a pillar in covering the stories that matter to you.
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