Court loss for Law and Order Minister
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg A South African court has ordered the Minister of Law and Order, Mr Louis le Grange, to pay about $2OOO to three black women who were unlawfully arrested while attending a memorial service near Johannesburg. Greta Ncapai, Albertina Sisulu, and Amanda Kwadi were part of a crowd of 200 people arrested 14 months ago and held in a police station for nine hours before being released without charge. Policemen told the Rand
Supreme Court that they were under the impression the service had developed into a political meeting furthering the aims of the outlawed African National Congress, the main guerrilla group fighting white minority nile in South Africa. But Judge Le Roux said “The decision to arrest everybody indiscriminately in order to identify them and establish their connection with the A.N.C. should not have been taken.” He also ordered the Minister to pay costs.
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