FRIENDS, family and supporters have held a memorial service for a Mozambican man who died in custody after being dragged behind a South African police van, an incident that has again thrown the spotlight on the much-maligned force.
About 1,000 mourners gathered at the sports stadium in Daveyton, the town east of Johannesburg where 27-year-old Mido Macia died on Tuesday last week.
The noisy remembrance was laced with anger, with the mix of Mozambicans, South Africans and other immigrants angrily booing police representatives out of the stadium.
Shocking footage showed the Mozambican taxi driver being manhandled, handcuffed to the back of a police van and dragged hundreds of metres to a local police station.
Just over two hours later he was found dead in his cell.
A post-mortem found he died from head injuries and internal bleeding.
The bail hearing for the eight police officers charged with his murder will start on Friday.
Mourners at the memorial sang and held posters of Macia while several people carried a woman by her arms and legs, imitating the now infamous images of his abuse.
One man held a poster with the words "Police stop promoting xenophobia. Justice must take its course".
At one point the crowd sang Umshimi wami (Bring me my machine gun), a Zulu struggle song known to the many Mozambicans who have lived as migrant workers in South Africa.
The song is laden with symbolic meaning. Once a standard rallying song of President Jacob Zuma, it is now being employed against the ANC-led government.
News of Macia's death spread quickly online and sent shockwaves throughout the country, the latest in a long history of violent incidents involving South African police, including the killing of 34 mineworkers during wage strikes last August.
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