Yet when someone looks at the kind of cruelty demonstrated by various organs of state which are supposed to be the driving force for the Vision, it defies thought that we will ever achieve anything in that respect.This week this publication was shocked at the manner in which a poor family in Gamonoyane near Metsimotlhabe has been treated.While they were trying to prepare for the burial of their late son, the Semong family which recently lost a land case against one of their own, Mmadikgomo Babusi, were subjected to the most insensitive form of harassment by law enforcement officers who frequented the family home demanding that they vacate the place and even threatening the elderly father with imprisonment.
Efforts by the family to let them bury their son in a dignified way hit a snag after the tribal authorities in Molepolole reversed their earlier decision to grant the family a temporary stay and ordered them to leave by Friday, the day they were supposed to hold a night vigil.Tlhokwe Semong whose fight for the land he believed belonged to him earned him a new case of contempt of court has had to spend a chilling night in police cells.His dignity was further trampled before curious mourners when police appeared again just an hour after he buried his son but this time he was lucky as the officers only ordered him to appear at Metsimotlhabe kgotla today.
