Before the fatal shooting on July 29, activists had expressed grave concern over the manner of the recovery of looted goods.
Shangase — who hails from Umzimkhulu, a rural town about 165km south of Durban — was unemployed at the time of her death. She had been doing piece jobs in Durban’s clothing factories before the Covid-19 hard lockdown was introduced in March 2020.
“She was still breathing ... but only just. A moment later she was dead. It was a sight I never wish even for my worst enemy.” “We don’t even have money to give her a decent funeral. These police officers who shot her must pay for her funeral. They must also pay to raise the children who are left behind. As for me, I lost a soul mate, someone with whom I had been through all the ups and downs of life,” Ngwadla said.
He said the fracas that led to the fatal shooting of Shangase began when the police and the soldiers began forcefully opening and breaking into the locked shacks of people who were not in them. Thandi Mzizi, 44, a member of the local committee of Abahlali baseMjondolo, said there was no need for the police to use such excessive force when coming to conduct the raid.
“My neighbour’s shack has a huge bullet hole. The bullet went through his bed and the T-shirt that was there has [a] bullet hole. Luckily he was not there, he was at work. If he was and had been sitting or sleeping on the bed he would have got shot,” she said, adding that there are several other shacks that had bullet holes after the shooting.
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