The Madlanga Commission dropped some absolutely horrifying footage showing EMPD officers torturing Emmanuel Mbense until he died, then messing with the crime scene to hide what went down. The videos reveal cops suffocating the 51-year-old dad from Brakpan with plastic bags while he begged for medical help, and other clips caught them planning to chuck his body down a mine shaft to cover their tracks. This whole thing came out during hearings looking into police corruption and brutality across the system.
The kicker is that a witness named Marius van der Merwe testified about the cover-up scheme, but he got shot outside his house right after sharing what he knew. His family had to bounce into hiding because everyone figured it was retaliation for snitching, and the whole situation has people screaming about how broken witness protection really is. The case keeps piling onto evidence that some officers are still using apartheid-era torture methods during interrogations.
The kicker is that a witness named Marius van der Merwe testified about the cover-up scheme, but he got shot outside his house right after sharing what he knew. His family had to bounce into hiding because everyone figured it was retaliation for snitching, and the whole situation has people screaming about how broken witness protection really is. The case keeps piling onto evidence that some officers are still using apartheid-era torture methods during interrogations.
