Metro police will have to be brought under control

This letter to the press from BBI founder and spokesperson, Dr Danny Titus in response to the shooting incident in Delmore on the East Rand last week.

“Can’t these guys think ahead?” asks Delmore community leader Wayne van Zyl. “What are they going to do in 2010?” This following the barbaric actions of the metropolice in Delmore, the past Sunday where a young boy was shot and killed.

The Brown Based Initiative ( BBI) condemns these actions unequivocally and requests the authorities to address these violations very seriously and to sack the guilty persons immediately. You just do not violate the dignity of people and the peace and quiet of a community like a bunch of uncontrolled tsotsis.

Someone must take responsibility for these “officers of the law.”

Mr.Van Zyl was busy talking to a senior member of the SA Police when the metro tsotsi turn up and choked him in front of the SA policeman. The streets are cordoned off and the children beaten up. Mr. Van Zyl went to fetch his camera to photograph the assaults on the children. He is thrown into the police van, his camera smashed to pieces against the vehicle and locked without charge at the police station for 4 hours.

The BBI is particularly concerned about the racist attitude where the metro police shouted: “Bushmen, we are going to kill you!” This needs to be clarified. It seems there is a total ignorance when dealing with coloured people or perhaps it is cold-blooded hatred against coloured people that is coming to the fore? Did a 15 year old have to die because of this? It seems the metro police need to appoint more coloured people instead of this tsotsi behaviour we saw on this fateful Sunday.

Dr. Danny Titus
BBI Chairperson and spokesperson
0826512507
bbisouthafrica@gmail.com