Police assault residents after riot?

SELEBI-PHIKWE: A beauty contest at a Rural Area Dweller (RAD) settlement degenerated into an ugly tussle between villagers who could not pay their way into the pageant and police officers.

 The incident occurred last Saturday night at Robelela, a RAD settlement for the Basarwa community, where the residents claim to have been "brutally assaulted" by the police.

Narrating the incident to Mmegi yesterday, one victim said as they milled outside the hall, two police officers approached him and ordered him in.

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