Community members say they don’t see a motive for cold-blooded massacre at Soweto tavern
Gauteng Forensic Pathology Service members collect evidence at the scene of the Emazulwini tavern shooting in Soweto that killed at least 15 people on 10 July 2022. Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen
The bloody weekend ended in Soweto where 23 people were shot, leaving 12 dead and 11 more injured inside the Emazulwini tavern in Orlando East, Soweto, in the early hours of Sunday morning.The deceased were aged between 18 and 35 years old. Not far from the Soweto Towers, community members gathered in scores to watch as police investigated the shooting scene where 15 people died.
while a reply to another parliamentary question revealed that 20% of the vehicles allocated to detectives were not operational as of 22 May,” Whitfield said. Police at Emazulwini tavern after a shooting killed at least 15 people early on Sunday morning. Picture: Neil McCartney / The Citizen “It [crime] has been normalised. We live in a time where we don’t care about human beings, we take care of systems,” he said.
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