Police turn tables on family

Last Friday,  41-year-old Lorato Daka shared her ordeal with the sister publication, The Monitor on how she and some family members were recently subjected to brutality at the hands of Tlokweng police officers who had stormed into their yard, assaulted and arrested them.

Appearing before Tlokweng Customary Court on Wednesday morning, Daka’s family of five were shocked to receive a string of new charges against them. The family had initially accused the police of having stormed their yard, assaulted and arrested them leaving one of of them with a fractured leg.