Have we descended below worst kind of barbarism?
Aug 19, 2010, Sowetan
Flipside of Life, with Charles Mogale
LET'S get serious, for once. Last week South Africans saw the very worst possible savage barbarism visited on a couple of young women on the East Rand.
Long story short: the women took up jobs vacated by people who had been fired for going on an illegal strike at the OR Tambo International Airport.
They were apparently ambushed and caught by a bunch of yahoos on a train, stripped starkers and their clothes thrown out of the window.
Someone with a phone camera snapped away and the pictures ended up on the front page of a tabloid.
Now savagery does not go beyond that. The pity of it all is that if our past record is anything to go by, the perpetrators will never be arrested, let alone have their day in court and be convicted.
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