ZIMBABWEANS FACE POLICE ABUSE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Zimbabwean citizens living in South Africa,Johannesburg are a cash cow for the South African Police Service members based in Johannesburg Police Central,Johannesburg Hillbrow Police Station,Parkstation Railway Police.
The South African Police members are extorting cash,cellphones and valuable goods from innocent Zimbabweans traveling to Zimbabwe without proper documentantion,the police officers mainly from Hillbrow,Johannesburg Central,Johannesburg Parkstation conducts mock stop and searches mainly in the braamfontein area,Jhb CBD,Hillbrow and Yeoville in the pretense of arresting illegal foreigners but only to extort cash and valuable items from them in exchange for their liberty,the victims are not taken to the Homeaffairs for verification of identity and legal status but are rather threatened with deportations,their right to protection are not observed.
SAPS recently launched a new unit dubbed as amapanyaza or green bombers to curb crime in the economic hub of RSA,many Zimbos arrested by these officers have valid papers either on ZEP or Asylum paper but are sholved,harrassed and robbed by these police officers conducting raids,efforts to speak to Hillbrow Chief police commissioner are scathy as he is said to be on holiday,in our effort to get clarity we tried to reach the Minister of Homeaffairs and Police minister in regard to the situation but numbers are unreachable.
Most Zimbabweans have lost a lot of money as these police officers rob all the cash their possess,in our investigative journalism we will expose the identity of the said police officers conducting unsanctioned raids and robbing Zimbabweans in Johannesburg.
The police officers move with patrol vehicles stops people search them then ask for identification before cornering them into their vehicle for extortion only to drop them pennyless at Powerhouse Bus Station,Chigubu Bus Station or Parkstation stranded without any cash to travel further.
