WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2007-10-03 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[The Government, I believe, hamstrings some of the Police and corrupts others. Jan]
By Alex Eliseev
Police officers – devastated by the murders of 54 of their colleagues – have issued a list of demands to improve their plight.
About 50 officers toyi-toyied outside the Roodepoort magistrate’s court on Thursday, calling on the government for better protection, more powerful weapons and increased training.
The protest coincided with the court appearance of 15 alleged members of the “Tsunami” gang of cop killers, who were involved in the Jeppestown, Johannesburg, shootout in which four police officers were gunned down.
The suspects will begin their bail applications on August 21 and the protesters have vowed to return and continue to plead with the government to help them to do their job effectively.
In the first six months of this year, 54 police officers have been killed across South Africa – 23 of them in Gauteng.
“They are killing us. We need protection from the state,” said Tinus Ntimane, the South African Police Union’s regional secretary. “Criminals have more rights than us and we are not able to fight back.”
He said being a police officer was a difficult and dangerous job.
“You can’t leave for work without reconciling a fight with your wife or girlfriend, because you may never come back. The fear is always there.”
He said many officers turned to drinking, causing a major social problem.
Placards reading “Cop killers must rot in jail” and “Police killings undermine democracy” were stuck up on the court’s fence or carried by the protesters.
The officers, who came from all over the province, toyi-toyied and shouted when the suspects were brought in and out of court. The group had several run-ins with court officials, but many eventually crammed inside the courtroom.
They issued a list of demands that needed to be met, they said, if they were to successfully carry out Gauteng Community Safety MEC Firoz Cachalia’s six-month plan to curb crime in the province.
In response, Cachalia said that “while some of the issues are legitimate, there are better ways to raise their concerns apart from public protest”. He did not wish to comment on the individual issues.
Police spokesperson Superintendent Lungelo Dlamini, who was at court, said the police management was aware of the issues.
“We’ve been looking at their concerns and meet with them from time to time,” he said.
Meanwhile, 15 of the 16 Jeppestown suspects stood in the dock on Thursday. During the first appearance, a few days after the June 25 bloodbath, the men were guarded by 10 policemen armed with rifles and were handcuffed and shackled.
During the latest appearance, just one suspect remained in hospital and the security around the alleged killers had been relaxed.
About five armed officers guarded the gang and the court was not emptied. Three of the suspects were still on crutches and two had their arms in casts.
Eight of their alleged accomplices were shot dead during the skirmish. Only three of the men are South African citizens.
Because an identity parade is being planned, the court has ordered that the men’s names cannot be published.