Black Sash, an Anti-Apartheid Organization composed entirely of white women published a series of affidavits chronicling to police brutality against non-White South Africans. The collection includes a detailed decription of a 1985 encounter between a minor and a police officer. This minor was detained without proper notification to his guardians and assaulted by the police officer in the holding cell.
Most of the emphasis was put on the accounts of the white women who witnessed the boy being whipped and the actions of a Lt. Fouche, the captain of this particular Police Station.
After a series of women recount entering the station with the boys mother and finding him being abused, the publication goes on to detail 27 testimonies of abuse from colored and black South Africans. Most of these testimonies involve being unnecessarily harassed and shot with pellets or rubber bullets. They emphasize 11 instances where children as young as 5 were shot by rubber bullets.
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