Post-Truth Police

This week, a high-profile South African journalist misrepresented the police. This is not only harmful to journalism, and harmful to the police, but harmful to those who make genuine claims about the police. It prompts me to reveal more than I have before. The context: I was framed by police. Here then are two recordings. In the first, the police inform me that I was never charged, never charged! In fact their denials went far beyond this. But this is a false statement. Why then did they make it? That seems self-evident. In the second recording, made after the first (notice the difficulty that the Captain has in saying it), the police inform me that the case is not closed. I am still charged. This, too, is a false statement. Why then did they make it? The reason here is clear: I cannot therefore see the files, which is the set-up. OBSERVATION: It reveals officers twisting and turning in every direction, where truth has long been lost. In the interim, a good minister, in fact a whole Church, are traumatised by these things.

Captain Jefta: "I'm affiliated with the Cluster. They have requested that an independent person look at your docket. This office belongs to a General. You were never charged. You were never charged!"

Captain Du Plessis: "Your fight against the police in terms of the Access to Information Act, you're going to hit, either, the, a, a wall every, every time, OK. That is my opinion. Um, and for one simple reason. The case is not closed."