Statement by Sam Shabane
GOOD National Chairperson
11 March 2021
The killing of a passer-by in a hail of rubber bullets fired by police in the general direction of protesting students at Wits University yesterday reflects a broken society in which the lives of ordinary people, particularly Black people, don’t matter.
It reflects an ill-disciplined police force hopelessly unqualified to mitigate the extreme pressures of inequality, hardship and poverty in a society that has lost faith in the integrity of its government to set things right.
It reflects the violence that has become the every-day reality in our dear suffering land.
We must not allow ourselves to become hardened to the injustice.
Just as we demand that the security force members responsible for the death of Collins Khosa in Alexandra for allegedly violating Covid lockdown provisions 11 months ago are held accountable for their foul deeds, so yesterday’s police killer/s must be identified and brought to book.
The lives of our people can’t be so cheap.
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