WANTED" WASN'T Hi?
By Larue Gervais
Professor Dennis Brutus, president of the South African Non- Racial Committee for Olympic Sports, vas shot and gravely wounded . by Johannesburg police September 17. The police said they were bringing him to the Marshall Scuare police station when he suddenly brokc away anc started running.
The colored professor fled for four blocks, according to the white police. Apparently he was gaining on his pursuers, ‘They shouted to him to stop but he made no apparent response, again according to the white police, To uphold the rcnowned daw and order of South Africa, they had no recourse but to fire. A single carefully aimec shot brought the fleeing man'down, the white police said,
At the hospital, a doctor performed cmergency surgery. Hc > was much puzzled at the character of the wounds. Professor Brutus had been shot twice squarely in the stomach, at close range arid from the front. The two bullcts had pessed through his body.
During the emergency oneration, policemen in surgical masks stood guard in the opercting room, They did not say whether this as done to protect the surgeon from the dangerous fugitive from justice or to block the victim on the operating table from leaping up under ancsthesia and flccing onco again. Apparently they were satisficd on conclusion of surgery thet the condition of Professor Brutus was so serious that they necd not worry for the time being about possibly having to expend more bullets on hin.
How did the well-known Profcssor Dennis Brutus happen to be in the hands of the Johannesburg policc? Was he guilty of some exceptionally grave crime?
Unfortunately, this happened to be the case. He was alleged to have done nothing less thon attend a mecting that had been banned by the racist South African government. lHven worse he was . said to have planned to present a case for the expulsion of South Africa from the Olympic Games.
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‘Five weeks ago, while awaiting trial for these monstrous violations of South Africa's racist code, Professor Brutus fled to the neighboring British protectorate of Swaziland. There he applied for political asylun.
- Fortunately for South African justice, while the decision was still pending on granting him asylum, he took a trip to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. In Lourengo Marques the secret political police of dictator Salazar nabbed the "wanted" man.
_ Professor Brutus was born in South Rhodesia and had British passport status. Therefore, according to the Swaziland government, nis vise for Mozambique was in perfect order. However, the Portugucse authorities dccidcd that he was really a citizen of South Africa and thus his visa was obtained under fraudulent pretenses.
Acting with oxemplary dispatch, they hauled him to the border town of Ekomatipoort and kandcd him. over to the South African cops. Later the same night the professor lay bleeding in the strect, his stomach perforated.
Thus it was, through an act of international police solidarity, that this dangerous public cnemy was brought to heel and law and order maintained in South Africa in accordance with the highest standards of present-day capitalist socicty.
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