A 40-year-old man was assaulted and killed allegedly by members of the SANDF during a crackdown in Alexandra, north of Joburg, on Friday.
Collins Khoza’s death has brought to nine the number of people killed by the police and soldiers for allegedly violating the national lockdown announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa last month.
“Three other soldiers started assaulting the deceased with a sjambok on the head. They kicked the deceased and even broke the door. After that, the deceased vomited two times. He said he needed to rest and that’s when he later passed out.” SANDF spokesperson Colonel Louis Kirstein declined to comment on the matter and said the issue was being handled by police.Attempts to get a comment from police spokesperson Kay Makhubele were unsuccessful.
Muvhango said the soldiers searched Khoza and then took the two bottles of alcohol with them to the street. “I then said, ‘why are you taking something that you found in the yard and going to the streets? This is to give an impression to the next person that comes that we were in the streets and we were not. That’s when she said, ‘you’ve got an attitude’. They also slapped the deceased’s wife in the face when she tried to intervene.
“I saw another soldier pushing him against the wall with force. Collins’ wife screamed and begged them not to kill him. When we tried to get closer, the soldiers chased us with a sjambok to prevent us from seeing the assault,” Bongelo said yesterday.
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