South Africa

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

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.

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. (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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