Johannesburg - A white South African former death squad policeman has been accused of whipping a seven-year-old black boy, putting him in hospital, for kissing his daughter. The boy told police he had kissed the hand of the daughter of Paul van Vuuren, prompting the former policeman, now a farmer, to whip him with a hide whip.
Van Vuuren has admitted serving as a killer policeman in a special squad in the days of white-minority rule. He specialised in torturing antiapartheid activists with electric shocks. He was pardoned for a number of murders by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.