ROB ROSE: ANC, lamenting Floyd’s murder, battles with obvious hypocrisy of Collins Khosa’s death
Because the majority of black South Africans remain voiceless and vulnerable, they’re abused by power-mad cretins emboldened by a gun and a uniform
08 June 2020 - 06:00
“We also lost our loved ones, people are talking about it, but SA, where are you? We also lost someone we wanted to be with. Is it because we’re from Alexandra? Is it because we’re from a poor family who comes from Alexandra township?”
These questions were posed by Nomsa Montsha, the partner of Collins Khosa, on SABC news over the weekend. She’d been asked why Khosa’s death, after a brutal assault by members of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), hasn’t sparked the same outcry as that of George Floyd, who died from asphyxiation on May 25 at the hands of the Minneapolis police...
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