In Madlala, the police and army broke into homes in an operation to retrieve stolen goods. After they left, a woman lay dead in a pool of her blood behind a shack
Police officers shot and killed Zamekile Shangase, 32, as they raided homes and forcefully reclaimed looted goods in Asiyindawo in Madlala shack settlement near Lamontville, residents say.
Having formed themselves into a group, residents are said to have screamed at the security forces team and ordered them off, with some pelting stones. The security forces responded by retreating and firing live ammunition in the process. “I was working the night shift so when the chaos started I was sleeping. When I was told I rushed to the scene and I saw the mother of my children lying on the floor, full of blood.
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. “When they come to us to collect rice, tin fish and other small items, they just budge in and treat us with disdain. The worst part is that they take these things only to destroy. There was no need for a poor woman to be killed for all of that,” she said.
Thapelo Mohapi, of Abahlali baseMjondolo, said there is no evidence in the police’s initial statement that they fired live ammunition after some people within the crowd threw stones at them.
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