{"id":9064,"date":"2013-08-13T14:35:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T14:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9064"},"modified":"2013-08-13T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T14:35:39","slug":"concourt-judge-says-police-unchanged-since-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9064","title":{"rendered":"Concourt judge says police unchanged since Apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9065\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zacyacoob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9065\" alt=\"Zac Yacoob\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zacyacoob.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zacyacoob.jpg 299w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zacyacoob-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 85vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zac Yacoob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The behaviour of South Africa&#8217;s police force remain largely unchanged since the apartheid era, former Constitutional Court judge Zac Yacoob said in a New Age report on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Sadly, the police of today do not seem to be better than the police of yesterday,&#8221; said Yacoob, in reference to the Marikana tragedy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In August last year, 44 people died during strike-related unrest at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana operations in Rustenburg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirty-four people &#8212; almost all striking mineworkers &#8212; were shot dead in a clash with police on August 16. Ten people, including two police officers, were killed in the preceding week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yacoob was speaking at the commemoration of the Golela Nine in Chatsworth, Durban.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nine anti-apartheid activists, known as the Golela Nine were found dead after they were ambushed near the Swaziland border at Golela in 1988.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yacoob had represented the families of the victims at the inquest into their death. &#8211; eNCA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The behaviour of South Africa&#8217;s police force remain largely unchanged since the apartheid era, former Constitutional Court judge Zac Yacoob said in a New Age report on Monday. &#8220;Sadly, the police of today do not seem to be better than the police of yesterday,&#8221; said Yacoob, in reference to the Marikana tragedy. In August last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Concourt judge says police unchanged since Apartheid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[164,5082,205,210,5083],"class_list":["post-9064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-apartheid","tag-constitutional-court-judge","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-zac-yacoob"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/zacyacoob.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9066,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions\/9066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}