Disappearances: It is time to act

So worrying was the figure (over 400) that an elder person in Kanye was prompted to tell a Kgotla meeting this week that these disappearances of people need to be addressed, or explained, as a matter of urgency.

Indeed, the old man was right to be concerned about the unresolved disappearances, as they instil fear in us, as we are no longer free to move around in our own country, as we used to do only a few years ago.  We have had cases of police officers, or rather, security agents being implicated in the killings of members of the public either deliberately or otherwise.  Once they find themselves in this situation, some officers have resorted to burying their victims to destroy evidence against them.  We have also had instances where people go missing while in police custody and nobody coming forward to account for such disappearances, only for the police to start to investigate their colleagues.