Criminal investigations into the extrajudicial killings that left 40 people dead in Phoenix in July last year, have become dormant and only three cases are before court. | azarrahk
Criminal investigations into the extrajudicial killings that left 40 people dead in Phoenix in July last year, have become dormant and only three cases are before court.
There is now a real prospect that justice is out of reach for those who were murdered during the wave of unrest. The families of those slain in the racially charged battle that gripped the suburb and the areas around it, have come to this grim resolution. They say"there is nothing we can do". News24 visited the murder scenes as well as the sites where looters stripped shopping complexes bare after the incarceration of former president Jacob Zuma.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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