Sunday Times reporter plucked off the street, may stand accused of anti-government conspiracy
As journalists and editors were meeting downstairs from the newsroom, the Sunday Times learnt that reporter Mzilikazi wa Afrika was being sought by the police. So he headed off to the Rosebank police station a few blocks away, to hand himself over as arranged by the paper's lawyers.
But he never reached his destination. Instead several police, using no fewer than six vehicles, arrested him on the roadside.
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