WHAT THEY REALLY DID TO WADE PRICE!!
Opinion Contributor for CCN
Manenberg:- Cape Flats, listen closely. The rest of South Africa, and the world – needs to stop scrolling and pay attention.
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While the mainstream media feeds you sanitized snippets about court dates, bail hearings, and procedural updates, I’ve been piecing together the nightmare that’s been buried under layers of official silence. This isn’t just another arrest gone wrong. This is a story of betrayal, brutality, and a system that protects its own at the expense of our communities.
We’re talking about Wade Price, a Manenberg resident whose life ended in what can only be described as a modern-day torture chamber.
How does a man go from celebrating a birthday braai to ending up with water in his lungs and suspicious marks around his neck? The allegations paint a chilling picture: kidnapping, assault, torture, and ultimately murder, all at the hands of those sworn to protect us.
They labeled him a gangster, but since when does that strip away his humanity? Since when does a badge grant the right to play judge, jury, and executioner?
Let’s cut through the fog.
On that fateful first night after Price was taken into custody alongside two others, questions exploded like gunfire in the night. Despite being in police hands, there was nothing on record, no entry in the station books, no official acknowledgment of a prisoner in custody. His lawyer and family hit a wall of stonewalling, unable to get a single straight answer.
If he wasn’t “there,” where the hell was he? The vanishing act wasn’t magic; it was a deliberate cover-up, now formalized as a charge of defeating the ends of justice against the officers involved.
Enter the AGU 11, the so-called elite Anti-Gang Unit members now facing the music in Athlone Magistrate’s Court. These “tough guys” are charged with turning a routine arrest into a horror show.
But here’s the irony that’s thicker than a packet of Chicargos: the same officers who allegedly hung a man in a dark room, forcing water into his lungs and leaving strangulation marks, are now in the dock, whining about their own safety behind bars. They’re terrified of the inmates at Pollsmoor, the very people they’ve locked away in their crusade against gangs.
Let that sink in. They dish out brutality but can’t handle a taste of the world they’ve created? It’s hypocrisy on steroids, and it’s exposing the rot at the core of our policing.
The timeline is a chicken run turned nightmare. Price was nabbed, whisked away to an off-the-books location, and subjected to methods that echo the darkest days of apartheid-era interrogations.
Water on the lungs? That’s not an accident; that’s waterboarding or something equally sinister. The marks on his neck scream foul play.
And while the state opposes bail for these officers, successfully keeping 10 of them locked up over Christmas, the community in Manenberg is left grappling with the fallout.
One officer was granted bail on medical grounds, but that doesn’t erase the questions: Why did this happen? Who gave the green light? And how many more “Wade Prices” are out there, unnamed and unavenged?
This isn’t for the faint-hearted. It’s a raw exposé for everyone tired of the system mopping up its messes while our people pay the ultimate price. The Anti-Gang Unit was meant to dismantle gangs, not mimic them.
But when the blue line turns red with blood, it’s time to demand accountability. The viral video that sparked this outrage? It’s just the tip of the iceberg – a glimpse into the torture room they tried to hide.
Manenberg, Cape Flats, Cape Town: This is your alert. Justice for Wade Price isn’t optional; it’s a reckoning.
The AGU 11’s tears in court won’t wash away the stains.
The truth hurts, but silence kills.
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