South Africa: Achmat Calls for Ceremony for Police to Apologise

13 February 2014

The police should hold a formal ceremony to apologise to some of the victims of poor policing in Khayelitsha, Zackie Achmat has suggested.

Giving evidence to the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry, Achmat, who has been involved with three of the organisations which called for the commission - the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) and Ndifuna Ukwazi - opened his testimony with half a tongue in his cheek saying, "Forward to socialism".

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