A lack of respect towards female soldiers and provocation were cited by a SANDF board of inquiry as the cause of a lockdown altercation prior to the death of Collins Khoza in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
According to the probe, the two men “did not comply” and undermined the two female soldiers. A group of around 10 soldiers arrived to assist.“On arrival of the members, the argument still persisted and the two men were forced to comply.
On April 10, a murder case was opened at the Alexandra police station. A postmortem found that Khosa had died of a blunt force head injury. The board said the conduct of a police sergeant who opened a murder docket, instead of an inquest docket, was “unacceptable”.
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