A Mitchells Plain mother says she is gatvol of police raiding her home, intimidating her family and terrorising the shop owner who rents on her premises.
The 40-year-old woman asked not to be identified for fear that her family will be further targeted.
She says she has been raided four times a week for the past two months and the final straw came last Tuesday.
That night six cop vans blocked Mayfair Close, she says.
She says cops stormed the house, throwing everything out of the cupboards in the bedrooms and trashed the shop, Saeedah’s Tuck Shop.
The police had been searching for drugs, but again found nothing.
The distraught woman says she needs to find counselling for her daughter who is traumatised after cops who screamed at her and fired teargas at her home.
“They pull up in the night and just break down the doors and enter my home,” she says.
“They do not show me any search warrant and even shot my tenant with a rubber bullet in his leg.
“We are afraid of the police now. They are supposed to protect us, but look what they are doing.”
Her tenant, “a good Muslim brother”, was never arrested and police never found anything illegal on the premises, she added.
“I went to the Mitchells Plain SAPS. They don’t have answers for me and don’t seem to want to assist me. We are being harassed and nobody is helping us,” she said.
Police spokesperson, Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana, says: “Mitchells Plain police confirms that several search warrants were executed at the mentioned address as a result of information received from community members that drugs were being stored at the house.
“The complainant is encouraged to formally lay a complaint with SAPS if she is not satisfied with the conduct of the police members during the search of the premises.”