Dashiki | You know not when they will come for you: The people who are meant to serve and protect, without prejudice, actually robbed a man. Let us speak out against injustice, whether it involves us or not, writes Fred Khumalo
He started walking to the taxi rank, which is just over a kilometre from our house. Not very far from the rank, a police van pulled up ahead of him.
Frowning threateningly, the policeman pocketed the money and said: “If you don’t want us to arrest you and send you back home, you better start running.”When I posted a shorter version of this tale on Facebook, many respondents were angry and embarrassed for being South African. Martin Niemöller, a clergyman who lived through Nazi atrocities in Germany, wrote memorably about public indifference to the suffering of others:
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