A Soweto man has successfully sued the police minister after he was wrongly arrested for allegedly having drugs when police searched him and found only a box of matches.
Happy Hlomuka, 50, was kept overnight in a prison cell and released the next morning without even appearing in court.
According to the judgment of the high court in Johannesburg, Hlomuka was walking with two friends in Rockville, Soweto, in October 2014 when he was arrested.
