2 killed in violent Hammanskraal protest

The ANC meanwhile said it would take the “harshest” disciplinary action against one of its councillors who was allegedly leading the protests in the area.

He had allegedly sold stands to residents, spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said.

"We think that is not the kind of councillor or leader of the ANC we want. We are considering taking the harshest decision ever against him because he has put the name of the organisation into disrepute," he told News24.

So in other words he's gonna get a diplomatic promotion to another country. Don't think the anc has ever expelled any of it's members.
 
Breadwinner killed in Hammanskraal was trying to earn R150

Pretoria - A Soshanguve family’s breadwinner was killed during violent Hammanskraal protests while trying to earn R150 to feed his family.

“I can’t comprehend that we can lose my brother for R150. I just can’t accept this,” Elias Tshabalala’s older brother Sam said.

He was killed on Monday when residents turned on employees of the Red Ants security company and a Pretoria-based construction and security business, which had been sent to evict them from land in the area.

A second worker, Lucky Nelushi, was also killed during the altercation with residents. Five people have been arrested, one of them for murder.

:mad:

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...hammanskraal-was-trying-to-earn-r150-20160527
 
We have just finished killing him - Hammanskraal residents answer victim's phone

Pretoria – When the brother of one of the two men killed in Hammanskraal on Monday called his sibling’s phone, his murderers answered.

The first call went to voicemail. “When I made the second call I knew something was not right. The third call was answered by one of the community members, who said they had caught him. He told me they had just finished killing him,” said Doctor Nelushi.

“He added that I should not talk nonsense, we are done with him. I started crying, I was in pain because my brother was dead.”

Doctor’s brother Lucky and a second man, Elias Tshabalala, were killed when residents of the Suurman, Kanana and Sekampaneng informal settlements turned on employees of the Red Ants security company. They had come to demolish shacks and evict them.

Assignment

The three were part of a team put together by a Pretoria-based security and construction company. Doctor said his brother told him about the job and that they should be at an intersection between Soshanguve and Makapanstad in the early hours of the morning. He said Lucky told him the assignment would be over four days and they would get R150 each per day.

“We were expecting 500 people to come on the day and there were six buses that came to pick us up.”

They were given reflector jackets, gloves, and crowbars.

During a briefing session with their employer, they were not told where they would be going, but that there would be protection.

“They told us that we must not worry about where we are going, or about safety, as we would have back-up from police and metro police as well as a chopper. They said it was enough and we should not worry. They said we would just be demolishing the shacks as well as loading the materials into the trucks,” he said.

Doctor said when they arrived in Hammanskraal around 07:00 there was no helicopter or security. There was only one SAPS car and one metro police car. Shortly afterwards they saw members of the Red Ants, who would be helping with the security.

They were instructed to split into groups of five and demolish and load the shacks onto trucks. He heard a shot fired after a Red Ants worker tried to disperse residents.

'My brother was caught'

“I could see people starting to run towards us. Everybody was trying to save their lives. From there we ran to our transports,” he said.

“From a distance I could hear and see a huge explosion and when I turned back, I saw that one bus was set alight. We ran to the other buses until we heard that seven of our guys have been injured and they are busy killing two of them,” Doctor said.

When he did not see his brother, he called him. It went directly to voicemail. He called again and then again before someone else answered.

“I was traumatised when I heard my brother was caught by the community.”

Doctor said they were given no training.

“I’m a security guard by profession and I have no training in dealing with violence like that. What they did was a huge risk to innocent people. They should have employed people with experience in that department,” he said.

Lucky would be buried in Venda next weekend.

Attempts to get comment from the company were unsuccessful. A woman answered the phone but hung up when a News24 reporter introduced himself.

News24
Link:http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...kraal-residents-answer-victims-phone-20160527
 
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