Waste picker killed over R50 | WitnessKZN
Pietermaritzburg police spokesperson Sergeant Mthokozisi Ngobese said the security guard was arrested on Sunday and is set to appear in court on Thursday facing murder charges relating to the shooting of 28-year-old Samkelo Hloaisi.
“First of all, the security guards are not even allowed to collect waste, but they do and they sell it to the waste pickers. “They are not supposed to be doing that. We don’t even understand why they are here in the first place. You find five or six security guards all sitting at the gate and we don’t know exactly what they are guarding.”
Tumelo, who is also a waste picker, said their greatest concern as a family at the moment was finding funds to bury his brother.Hloaisi, who was described as a “people’s person”, is survived by his wife, three children, two younger brothers and his mother.
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