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The Age
| 4 months ago
Henke Pistorius, right, and his son Carl during the bail hearing for Oscar Pistorius last month. The father of Oscar Pistorius, the Paralympian who shot his girlfriend dead on Valentine's Day, has blamed the failure of the ANC government to bring...
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News 24
| 4 months ago
A town in Italy has cancelled its sponsorship of murder-accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius, according to a report on Sunday. Paolo Urbani, the mayor of the town Gemona, told Rapport newspaper that the town would not continue its five-year...
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News 24
| 4 months ago
Murder-accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius ' legal costs during his week of detention probably amounted to up to R1.2 million, a legal expert said in a report on Saturday. Beeld quoted law professor Tom Coetzee as saying the week during which his...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
It is not what South Africans like to hear, and some even deny it...Some happen on camera, like the shooting of Andries Tatane in the Free State in April 2011. A local activist, he was shot and killed by police in broad daylight in the presence of...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 4 months ago
Eight South African police officers were charged with murder on Friday for the death of a taxi driver dragged by a police vehicle, a videotaped incident which became a worldwide symbol of police brutality in this country. Earlier on Friday, friends...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 4 months ago
Commissioner Riah Phiyega said that the eight officers had been disarmed and suspended and the station commander had been removed from his post. Twenty-seven-year-old Mozambican taxi driver Mido Macia was filmed being manhandled and dragged by a...
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BBC
| 4 months ago
South Africa suspends taxi driver arrest 'drag' police South African police who arrested a Mozambican taxi driver before cuffing him to a police van and dragging him along the street have been suspended. The incident was recorded by a member of the...
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
South Africa's police watchdog began a homicide probe after officers were caught on video tying a man to the back of a police van and driving off, dragging him. President Jacob Zuma condemned the police action against Mido Macia, 27, a taxi driver...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 4 months ago
The man, a taxi driver from neighbouring Mozambique, was towed for some distance and then later found dead in nearby Daveyton police station. A post-mortem exam of 27-year-old Mido Macia found the cause of death to be from head injuries and internal...
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The Guardian
| 4 months ago
The death of Mido Macia, in Daveyton, east of Johannesburg, has once more focused attention on South Africa 's police force, already dogged by allegations of brutality, corruption and incompetence. In the amateur video footage( warning: contains...
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The Globe & Mail
| 4 months ago
Video Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. The fourth and likely final day of Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing opened on Friday, with the...
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The independent
| 4 months ago
Suggested Topics The images are grainy, but the content is clear. Less than three minutes of video, shot on a mobile phone and posted online by a newspaper in South Africa, has sent fresh shockwaves through a nation already reeling from the Oscar...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 4 months ago
South Africa has opened a murder investigation into the death of a Mozambican taxi driver who was filmed being dragged by a police van through the streets, in a case that has sparked widespread outrage. Video footage taken by a bystander shows 27-...
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Fox News
| 4 months ago
The job of the South African police is to fight one of the highest crime rates in the world...On Thursday, the release of a video showing uniformed police binding a taxi driver to the back of a police vehicle and dragging him the man was later found...
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Reuters
| 4 months ago
Topics South African President Jacob Zuma laughs as he delivers his State of the Nation Address after the formal opening of Parliament in Cape Town February 14, 2013. President Jacob Zuma launched an anti-rape campaign targeting South Africa's 10...
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Arab News
| 4 months ago
South Africa's police watchdog is investigating the death in custody of a Mozambican taxi driver who was filmed being dragged behind a police vehicle, a spokesman said on Thursday. Video footage taken by a bystander shows 27-year-old Mido Macia...
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News 24
| 4 months ago
Women and children should not have to face violence or rape anywhere in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. "No woman or child should be beaten, raped, stabbed, shot or attacked in any manner anywhere in our country, whether by known...
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News 24
| 4 months ago
No single cultural group should be blamed for the scourge of violence against women and children, the presidency said on Tuesday. "We wish to assure the Afrikaner community and all South Africans that government's commitment to non-racialism and...
