“In recent times, we find ourselves on a slippery slope of human rights abuses that we had hoped to never see again.”
Holomisa was speaking to a crowd of people at a Human Rights Day commemoration event in Gxwalibomvu in the Eastern Cape.
Human Rights Day commemorates the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 when police shot dead 69 anti-apartheid protesters.
Holomisa said that the police’s current violent approach to people was similar to the approach taken during apartheid.