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Police torture case postponed for state to get an interpreter

A man who was beaten on CCTV by police has had to travel to a Cape Town court from the Eastern Cape each time at his own expense

Juma Igiraneza at the barber where he worked in Mowbray when a group of officers came in and tortured him in November 2023 . The incident was caught on CCTV. Video screenshot: Ashraf Hendricks
A missing court interpreter has once again forced the postponement of the torture case in which three police officers are accused of beating and torturing a barber during a raid in Mowbray.
Lieutenant-colonel Delmore Manuel, constable Jermaine Conradie and constable Leigh-Ann Maroon are accused of torturing Juma Igiraneza at his workplace in Mowbray on 7 November 2023.
CCTV footage showed several police officers repeatedly assaulting Igiraneza, allegedly to get him to provide information on the whereabouts of his boss at the time.
In April, the case…

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