Man killed for watching Cup

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ohannesburg - A man who wanted to watch a World Cup football match instead of a religious programme was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country, police said on Thursday.

David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought with his wife and two children for the remote control on Sunday because he wanted to watch Germany play Australia in the World Cup.

The others, however, wanted to watch a gospel show.

"He said, 'No, I want to watch soccer'," police spokesperson Mothemane Malefo said on Thursday.

"That is when the argument came about.

"In that argument, they started assaulting him."

Malefo said Makoeya got up to change the channel by hand after being refused the remote control and was attacked by his 68-year-old wife Francina and two children, 36-year-old son Collin and 23-year-old daughter Lebogang.

Malefo said he was not sure what the family used to kill Makoeya.

"It appears they banged his head against the wall," Malefo said. "They phoned the police only after he was badly injured, but by the time the police arrived the man was already dead."

All three were arrested on Sunday night, but Lebogang was released on R1 500 bail on Tuesday, Malefo said, and the other two are still being held in custody.

Malefo said the mother and son will reappear in the local Seshego Magistrates Court on July 27.

Makoeya was buried on Saturday.

"He was always a happy man, never violent," Makoeya's nieces, Miriam and Anna, told the Daily Sun newspaper.

Although most the tickets for the 64-game tournament have been sold, many are too poor to attend matches.
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http://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/WorldCup/NationalNews/Man-killed-for-watching-Cup-20100617
 
Ironic. They commit murder to watch a gospel show.
Sad too.
 
Religion.... *sigh*...

"Voltaire Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities"

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
 
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I would kill some1 if they wanted to watch Bafana play again :D
 
Ok...it wasn't intentional...so the script reads:
"oops I killed Grandpa." *click* *sounds of worship fill the room*
?
Intentional or not its absurd.
 
eltherza said:
Don't think it was intentional, a fight that just got out of hand.
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might not have been intentional but what's wrong with you if you continuously beat someone's head because you want to watch your gospel program?
 
This is not really surprising, religion has claimed many lives over the years.It is the main cause of billions of deaths since the beggining of time, one more old man in the pursuit of religion is nothing.
 
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