Community kills trio over cables

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Good since a fine and a slap on the wrist does not make these people stop.

Johannesburg - Three men were burnt to death by a mob who accused them of being cable thieves in Lenasia South on Wednesday, Gauteng police said.

The three men were believed to be part of a group who had been stealing electricity cables in an informal settlement in Lenasia South, said Captain Mpande Khoza.

"They said at around 01:00 (they saw) a Nissan bakkie which keeps terrorising the people here and cutting the electricity cable."

Khoza said that replacing the cable cost every household in the settlement R200. Fed up by the thefts, residents organised themselves into patrols armed with whistles and vuvuzelas.

"At around 01:00 they spotted the same bakkie which has been doing this. They blew the whistles and the vuvuzelas and found these men with a gun and a bolt cutter.

"The three men in the back of the bakkie, they ran away, but the three in the cab couldn't escape.

"They tried to use the bakkie to escape but the community came from all angles," said Khoza.

Community members set the bakkie alight with the alleged cable thieves still inside.

Khoza said police were still gathering information about the attack. Much of their information had come from listening to community members who were speaking to journalists.

"They are much more open to the journalists than they are to the police," said Khoza.
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MAybe it's because the media acctually listens.
 
/me hires mob to investigate Zuma & the rest of the corruptiles ...
 
ummm wow thats a tad harsh being burnt alive. They should of caught them and called the police.
 
Korn1 said:
ummm wow thats a tad harsh being burnt alive. They should of caught them and called the police.
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To be back next week to do it again?

It's good that criminals can fear their comunity,
 
The thing is, thats African justice, and it works for Africans. Thats how they did things in the past, and it worked for them. Our Western justice system sometimes just isnt suited to cases like this.
 
Ancalagon said:
The thing is, thats African justice, and it works for Africans. Thats how they did things in the past, and it worked for them. Our Western justice system sometimes just isnt suited to cases like this.
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Eh? It never worked and still doesn't, this is exactly why Africa is as useless and primitive as it is. The poorest of countries in Africa is using this so called "African Justice" . It's a slippery slope, before you know what hit you, they're wiping out entire ethnic groups like in the Congo/DRC and then it's civil war and coups and rebellions and more civil war and it just NEVER ENDS.

While this particular incident is all vigilante justice and all, those people don't know when to stop , next they grab all Zimbabweans and burn them because 1 of them were stealing cables....
 
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diabolus said:
Eh? It never worked and still doesn't, this is exactly why Africa is as useless and primitive as it is. The poorest of countries in Africa is using this so called "African Justice" . It's a slippery slope, before you know what hit you, they're wiping out entire ethnic groups like in the Congo/DRC and then it's civil war and coups and rebellions and more civil war and it just NEVER ENDS.

While this particular incident is all vigilante justice and all, those people don't know when to stop , next they grab all Zimbabweans and burn them because 1 of them were stealing cables....
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Uh, yeah, thats true actually. Didnt think of that.
 
Ja, while we are all glad that these criminals won't be back to steal more cables... as said, it is not the best way of handling things. The problem comes in two forms. There is the problem of them killing the wrong guys. How would we feel if these were Eskom workers that this mob had accidentally killed? And then, where do you stop? Once mob justice gets rolling it quickly gets out of hand and starts attacking all kinds of innocent people because the mob mentality rules.
 
Oh just read again that they had a gun.Yeah kill them! Their intentions are clear.
 
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