Family want answers after daughter killed in police raid
By Lethu Nxumalo
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The family of a woman who was killed by police last month, along with five alleged gangsters accused of terrorising Pietermaritzburg, want answers as they believe their daughter was innocent.
Mandisa Phakathi, 19, died of gunshot wounds to the head when police raided a Scottsville home that had been under surveillance.
One of the occupants killed in the raid was Sphelele Ntsuntsu Mkhize, the alleged gang mastermind, who had escaped from a police truck on its way from New Prison to the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court in April.
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One man was arrested on Saturday at the funeral of a suspected Pietermaritzburg gang leader, Sphelele Ntsuntsu Mkhize, after police found a 9mm pistol on the mourner.
Police say all is in order as burial proceedings go ahead for the slain gang leader, Sphelele Ntsuntsu Mkhize at KwaCaluza, in Pietermaritzburg, on Saturday.