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Sizok'thola: How suspected drug dealer was tortured, forced to confess

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Footage suggests that Sizok'thola crew tortured alleged drug dealers.
Footage suggests that Sizok'thola crew tortured alleged drug dealers.
Rosetta Msimango

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Raw footage of an episode of the popular anti-drugs show Sizok’thola, that was never released but which City Press has seen, sheds more light in how the crew used intimidation and violence to get suspected drug dealers to co-operate.

The episode in question relates to the alleged drug dealer Robert “Kicks” Varrie, who died after the Sizok’thola crew visited his house in Katlehong in Ekurhuleni in July this year. They allegedly tortured him to confess that he was a drug dealer.

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