South Africans go online to document police brutality
KIM HARRISBERG STRICT enforcement of South Africa's coronavirus lockdown by police and the army has placed the spotlight on official brutality, a cause of anger among the majority Black population for decades. Now a coalition of human rights organisations called C19 is seeking to document those abuses, hoping the data gathered will drive reform. A new website that allows South Africans to report police brutality launched in April and has drawn input from across the country, mainly from townships in large cities. Users go through a series of questions on the free-to-use site, where they can submit a testimony together…