Sun May 26 05:03:19 SAST 2013

Mob kills alleged thief

Nov 19, 2012 | Sapa | 21 comments

"I could see that his body was already weak by the time they took him up the road and put a burning tyre on him" - Aunt

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Sun May 26 05:03:20 SAST 2013 ::
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Nov 19, 2012

MommaC

Until the police stop being criminals and start DOING the job we pay them to, this horror is going to carry on. It is also sad that families have no way to stop their kids from falling into the tsotsi role. Surely a system where parents can report their kids and get some kind of help to pull them straight would help to prevent this?
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Nov 19, 2012

TLekota

Freedom is coming tomorrow. Get up and dust yourself its time to shine. Don't arrest yourself on drugs.
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Nov 19, 2012

GODESS

yoh! so he started stealing at the age of 10? Dear Lord!
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Nov 19, 2012

malemaforpresident

Mawu’s mother Thandi said her son had stolen a number of items from their shack in the last eight years.
“I think he started using drugs in 2004. He stole our TV, DVD and clothes... they found those people’s things in his room, so I can’t do anything.”
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Thandi this should be a relieve case closed isnt that he also stole your number of items


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Nov 19, 2012

22112JO

WE LIVE IN A PRIMITIVE SOCIETY ......PEOPLE TAKE THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS AND BECOME MURDERERS .SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS A MIRACLE TO RID US OF ALL THE ROT THAT HAS SET IN ..... .ALL WALKS OF LIFE IS SUBJECT TO THIS ROT .
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Nov 19, 2012

swona

I think this kind of msgs must be shown on tv as well, so people can know that, good citizens can get tired of being victimised for being good, paying taxes and stolen from by their fellow beings, have a rural home that has been broken into, it in not a nice feeling, we knew those days that neighbours will look after one another in rural areas, but those thing were of the 80's, before the police parants shoud do their duty, raise their sons well, if we had good family values, police work would be easy!
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Nov 19, 2012

s.cold

I REALLY LIKE THAT,,,,,
SIQEDA UKUSHISA OMUNYE LA E-ALEX,,


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Nov 19, 2012

MommaC

malemaforpresident

That is because you are not a mother. Hope springs eternal that things will change and a mother's love is not conditional
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Nov 19, 2012

spirro

mob justice

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Nov 19, 2012

Kon-Tiki

"Provincial police spokesman Andre Traut said no arrests had been made as yet." Do we really want the police to arrest a dead criminal? How heartless have we become as a society. Provincial police must not waste their resources trying to arrest exhausted citizens for the death of a known criminal. He was a pain to the society and now the pain is gone. The police must go looking for other criminals. There are plenty of them in Mzansi.
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Nov 19, 2012

Voetzek

But SA, stop applying death penality ironically
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Nov 19, 2012

thinya

After hearing his mother's comments last night on etv, I understand that this boy was a problematic child, but again the manner in which he was killed was also inhuman, what went wrong in our society?
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Nov 19, 2012

babyfats

mmmmmmm de people justice
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Nov 19, 2012

lebekere

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Nov 19, 2012

Impela

We signed up for the rule of law in 1994 not this rubbish where people simply pick a suspect and execute without trial! The steady collapse of the rule of law in our society spells serious danger. I would hate to live in a country where the dangerous are the law!
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Nov 19, 2012

NICEBOOBS

Untill the police arrest these criminals the people will continue burning these criminals
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Nov 19, 2012

RobinX

Kon-tiki: So off to the bush with you, Sir. That is where animals belong.
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Nov 19, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

Heard the mother on tv saying that he got his just dessert (and the sister was also thrilled). The mother said that the community has done good by eliminating him as she longer had a home and now she be able to enjoy her house/home. She would often report him to SAPS when she found stolen goods in the house but we all know that SAPS is toothless.

Wish most mothers had her courage.
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Nov 19, 2012

candilious

@MommaC- She actually said on the news shewas releaved he is gone and that their have no photos of him their can live a peacefull life now. From the Mothers own mouth but she was in tears saying that
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Nov 19, 2012

malemaforpresident

MommaC
malemaforpresident
That is because you are not a mother. Hope springs eternal that things will change and a mother's love is not conditional
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You rape your own mother and expect unconditional love?
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Nov 19, 2012

MGEEZ

My lips are sealed!!
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