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12 April 2021: Kriben Kribashnee poses for a photograph near her home in Welbedacht East in Chatsworth, south of Durban. Kribashnee, a professional dancer, is training to become a Hindu priest. (Photograph by Rogan Ward)
Until recently, Simphiwe Mkhize, 18, was dreaming of a career as a social worker. But that dream has now been shattered after he was forced to quit grade 9 at his school in Tongaat, about 40km north of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. Mkhize says he often found himself in fights with fellow pupils who were insulting him and calling him names because he is gay.
“I couldn’t take it anymore. They often picked on me. Some of the insults I let go, but others I returned and this led to fights,” he said. The abuse from his community in Tongaat has been so bad that Mkhize has been forced to flee and find refuge in a shack settlement near Chatsworth, where he now lives with his mother.
COP DIED FOR GBV VICTIM Mbali Dlungwana
RESPONDING to a domestic violence case, two officers accompanied the victim home.
But a shot was fired from the woman’s house in Welbedacht East in Chatsworth on Thursday last week, which struck Constable Mfihloyakhe Ndlovu (45) in the upper body, killing him.
The shooter then ran out of the house, firing randomly.
The other constable fired back, fatally wounding the suspect.
Acting Community Safety MEC Kwazi Mshengu visited Ndlovu’s home in KwaXimba in Durban on Saturday.
He warned thugs that police would not hesitate to use deadly force if their lives were threatened.
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Policeman gunned down in Chatsworth domestic violence call named
By Zainul Dawood
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Durban - A POLICEMAN and his attacker were both shot dead yesterday when police responded to a domestic violence incident in Chatsworth.
Constable Royal Ndlovu, 43, from Chatsworth SAPS, was responding to a domestic violence case in Welbedacht East at 9.30am.
Police spokesperson Colonel Brenda Muridili said two constables were accompanying a woman home after she reported a domestic violence complaint at Chatsworth police station.
Muridili said when the constables arrived at the complainant’s yard a shot was fired from inside the house before the police could enter.