http://mg.co.za/article/2011-04-21-who-was-andries-tatane

Who was Andries Tatane?
KWANELE SOSIBO - Apr 21 2011

Street in Ficksburg's Market Square where Andries Tatane died after police allegedly beat and shot him during a march to the Setsoto local municipality offices on Wednesday last week.

Phillip Selokoe, his former high school teacher, showed the Mail & Guardian an oval mark not far from the municipal building entrance where Tatane was apparently shot in the chest. Then he pointed out a smaller, spherical one about 10 metres further on where Tatane is said to have collapsed some minutes afterwards.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/specialreports/elections2011/article1028697.ece/Let-them-drink-Valpr-eacute--says-Ficksburg-mayor

Let them drink Valpré says Ficksburg mayor

Residents' anger boils over at Tatane court case
Apr 18, 2011 10:24 PM | By SIPHO MASONDO in Ficksburg

"People say there is no water in this town. What is this?" giggled Ficksburg's mayor, Mbothoma Maduna, reaching into his office fridge for bottles of Valpré mineral water.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-04-15-protesters-death-not-an-isolated-case/

Protester's death not an isolated case
ILHAM RAWOOT AND GLYNNIS UNDERHILL Apr 15 2011 07:31

The death of a protester in Setsoto, Ficksburg, on Wednesday, apparently at the hands of riot police, is not an isolated incident. The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD), according to its 2010 annual report, investigated 1 769 cases of people dying in police custody or as a result of police action.

Video footage of the protester, identified as 33-year-old Andries Tatane, caused shockwaves when it was broadcast on SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) prime time news on Wednesday evening.

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=140341

ITUMELENG MAHABANE: Death in Ficksburg shows how we value life
‘Between 70% and 80% live in the second economy and it is a place of humiliating and incapacitating poverty’
Published: 2011/04/15 06:52:20 AM

A MAN died this week. He died with his arms clutching his chest, trying to stop the blood spilling out of a gaping bullet hole.

His crime? In a country in which nearly 50% of the people live in poverty and where nearly 50% of black people are unemployed — most of them without the prospect of ever finding a job — he died because he wanted a better deal for his community.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-04-14-ficksburg-protestors-set-buildings-alight

Ficksburg protesters torch buildings
MIRANDA ANDREW JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Apr 14 2011 15:11

Two municipal buildings in Ficksburg, in the eastern Free State, were set alight by rioters on Thursday after the killing of a man allegedly by the police.

"The home affairs building and the public works building was set alight at around 12.45pm," said police spokesperson Captain Phumelelo Dlamini.

"We are not sure if anyone has been injured or if the buildings were evacuated in time," he said.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/specialreports/elections2011/article1019541.ece/Protester-beaten-and-shot-to-death

Protester beaten and shot to death

Shocking images as police shown beating defenceless protester to death

Apr 13, 2011 10:19 PM | By CHANDRE PRINCE, SIPHO MASONDO and HARRIET MCLEA
Shocking images of police brutality were broadcast to the nation on television yesterday - they showed an unarmed man being beaten to death by a mob of policemen.