An 18-year-old man, who was detained and almost deported to Mozambique, because he was considered “too dark” was awarded R90 000 in the Pretoria High Court, the Star newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The court heard that South African born Shaun Mhaule, who was 14 at the time (2004), was hysterical when police were about to load him onto a truck in Mpumalanga, “back to his homeland”.
The newspaper reported that police insisted Mhaule was “too dark to be a South African” and locked him up for 30 hours with 24 other men.
How eff’ed up is that?
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