Outrage over indignity to African boy

By M.S. Prabhakara

CAPE TOWN, SEPT. 11. The African National Congress has expressed its `extreme outrage' over an incident in Newlands West in Durban in Kwazulu-Natal in which Thetha Mkwanazi, a five-year-old African child, was allegedly subjected to indignities by a group of South Africans of Indian origin.

Mr. Mtholephi Mthinkulu, an African National Congress (ANC) official of the province, said the incident, which took place last week, has led to tension in Newlands West, originally an Indian township but now having a mixed population.

A statement issued this morning by the Kwazulu-Natal ANC said that when the incident was reported at the local police station by the parents of the victim, the duty officer-in-charge of the police station, who is of Indian origin, refused to take the statement saying that he, the police official, would interview the boy personally.

The ANC called on the Police Commissioner of North Durban to give the case, which has touched the `nerve of race relations', his `personal attention'.

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