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Aggett told me how he suffered: cop recalls culture of racism, violence

28 January 2020 - 08:00 By NALEDI SHANGE
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Joe Nyampule who worked as a policeman at John Vorster Police Station at the time of Neil Aggett's death, testified at his inquest on Monday.
Joe Nyampule who worked as a policeman at John Vorster Police Station at the time of Neil Aggett's death, testified at his inquest on Monday.
Image: Naledi Shange

There was absolutely no honour or special privilege in being a black man employed by the elite security branch wing of the police during the apartheid era.

This according to a black officer who gave the Neil Aggett inquest a chilling account of what it was like in John Vorster Square in 1982.

 

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