“The use of sjamboks is unlawful under South African constitutional and international human rights law. It is also not included as an authorised weapon in the South African Police Service (SAPS) national instruction 4 of 2014…”
The story is told in New Zealand of an ex-pat SA whose daughter’s house party was invaded by twenty (20) “youths” with their own kind of party in mind - and her Dad took down the sjambok he had on the wall and set to work. He cleared the house single-handedly. The New Zealand authorities later considered charging him with excessive force; he said, “I’ll do it again if ever I must.”
n b The account I read said “twenty,“ but that’s an awfully large, conveniently even number - I suspect the story grew in the telling. But street-gang numbers there were, certainly.
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Date: 2020-12-01 07:23 am (UTC)“The use of sjamboks is unlawful under South African constitutional and international human rights law. It is also not included as an authorised weapon in the South African Police Service (SAPS) national instruction 4 of 2014…”
The story is told in New Zealand of an ex-pat SA whose daughter’s house party was invaded by twenty (20) “youths” with their own kind of party in mind - and her Dad took down the sjambok he had on the wall and set to work. He cleared the house single-handedly. The New Zealand authorities later considered charging him with excessive force; he said, “I’ll do it again if ever I must.”
n b The account I read said “twenty,“ but that’s an awfully large, conveniently even number - I suspect the story grew in the telling. But street-gang numbers there were, certainly.