SHORT TAKES : Simpson Says No to S. Africa
ABC news correspondent Carole Simpson, who said she was assaulted recently by a South African police officer, says she will not return to the country until its apartheid policy ends.
“I’ll go back when apartheid is over, and I don’t think that’s going to happen soon,” Simpson said.
Simpson said she still suffers nightmares that began after an officer grabbed her from behind, threw her against a car and struck her in the kidneys during a disturbance in Johannesburg.
Simpson was injured while covering a church service Feb. 10, the day before African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of imprisonment.
ABC lodged a formal complaint with the South African government about the injury incident, she said, “but I’ve given up waiting for a response.”
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