Cops warn on killer ‘scrap’
“I have never heard anything so loud in my life – hours later it was still ringing in my ears. I was so frightened, I couldn’t sleep last night and my child is still too scared to go outside.”
eNkanini is still talking about the explosion that rocked the informal settlement on the north-east margin of Makhanda on Monday 8 March. It blew a bag of scrap metal to pieces, threw the bag’s owner five metres across the veld and left him with one broken leg and both legs full of shrapnel.
It was not a “bomb”, although it was so loud that neighbours believed it was.
A young man begged for his life as a mystery gunman pumped bullets into him outside a popular tavern on Tuesday evening. Shattered witnesses in Southernwood, East London, where the killing happened, are still trying to process the shocking event. The youth, whom they described as quiet and well-behaved, succumbed to his injuries at Frere hospital on Tuesday about four hours after the shooting.
Drugs and stock theft bust! Sandiso Phaliso File Photo.
AT least 121 cattle, 57 goats and 111 sheep were recovered during a police operation in Mthatha between 19 February and Tuesday, 9 March.
The operation, according to police spokesman Khaya Tonjeni, was supported by provincial and King Sabata Dalindyebo traffic services as a direct response to the rise in stock theft-ridden places. These included Bityi, Mthatha, Mount Frere, Libode, Sulenkama, Lusikisiki, Flagstaff and Tsolo.
“The operation is targeted at combating stock theft, proliferation of illegal weapons and general crime. Its impact is expected to reach OR Tambo, Joe Gqabi and Chris Hani districts,” said Tonjeni.
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