Alberton resident gets assaulted at Home Affairs, Police do nothing
There seems to be a very large multitude of complaints against Home Affairs, but nothing is being done.
YET another complaint of assault has been made against an Alberton Home Affairs official.
The woman (who wishes to remain anonymous) says she went into the Home Affairs offices with her daughter (November 23) and after hours of standing in the queue, they were told to move and then just sent from pillar to post.
“When I asked to speak to a manager, things really started to get bad. This official came out and immediately started getting abusive towards my daughter and I. He pushed my daughter hard on the chest, so we called the police; little knowing that that would be a mistake,” says the woman.
“One man who witnessed what happened, stood between us and the man to protect us from him. When the police finally came, no statement was taken – in fact the two officers completely ignored us and spoke to the man who assaulted us, in their own language. They seemed to know each other and they were obviously protecting him. I got the distinct impression they were racist,” she adds.
The RECORD is in possession of the names of the police officers and have photographs and the name of the Home Affairs official involved, but in spite of our efforts to get comment from the Alberton SAPS and Home Affairs, they haven’t bothered to respond to the serious allegations.
There seems to be a large number of complaints against Home Affairs, but nothing is being done – and when the police get involved and protect the alleged assailant and ignore the victim; there’s something very wrong.
“I’m trying to get hold of the video footage too, but the police officers and the official were threatening the security guard and telling him to delete the footage or he would be sorry – so I don’t know if it even exists anymore,” says the woman.
The witness who stepped in to help the victim, confirms the mother and daughter’s version of events.
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