Tag: Kagiso

Man arrested for firing shots at protest

kagisoA man has been arrested after firing shots during a protest  in Kagiso, Krugersdorp, Gauteng police said.

He is accused of discharging a firearm and was taken into custody on Saturday after a protest erupted in the area, said Brigadier Sipho Ngubane.

Kagiso residents took to the streets over the weekend, demanding that mining activities in the area be stopped immediately.

“They were complaining that the mining activities in the area were damaging their houses.”

Most of the roads were still blocked with stones and burnt tyres, although Ngubane said the situation was calm on Monday morning.

He said on Sunday police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters who were throwing stones.

“A municipal and a police vehicle were badly damaged by stones thrown by protesters.”

No one was arrested on Sunday.

Police would be deployed until the situation returned to normal, said Ngubane.

A meeting between the department of mineral resources and the mining company is scheduled for Tuesday.

Chairman of community policing forum murdered

crime-gunThe chairman of Azaadville’s community policing forum, west of Johannesburg, has been shot dead, Kagiso police said on Thursday.

“Yesterday [Wednesday] at about 1pm a chairperson of the Azaadville Community Policing Forum was robbed and shot in a business robbery at his shop in Chamdor next to Kagiso,” Warrant Officer Solomon Sibiya said in a statement.

Sibiya identified the man as Ishmael Shaik.

Eye witnesses were said to have seen more than six men arriving in two cars.

It was believed four people entered a shop on Jacob Street, Chamdor near Kagiso on Wednesday, and demanded money from the shop owner at gun point, Sibiya said.

“When the deceased resisted he was shot in the head and chest. An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen. The suspects thereafter fled the scene in two vehicles.”

The deceased, believed to be in his thirties, was rushed to the local hospital where he later died.

“One person was arrested and has been taken in for questioning,” Sibiya said.

Police were hunting for 10 people believed to be linked to the robbery and murder. – Sapa

New South African morals: father sodomises his 10-year old son

A 10-YEAR-OLD boy from the West Rand has been moved to a place of safety after allegedly having been sodomised by his father, reports the black newspaper, The Sowetan.

 The 32-year-old father, a Zimbabwean who lives in Rietvallei near Kagiso, made a brief appearance in the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

He was arrested last Thursday after a neighbour alerted police.

Warrant Officer Solomon Sibiya confirmed the child is receiving medical treatment.

“The boy was staying with his father because his mother lives in Tembisa,” Sibiya said. “The neighbour told the police what had allegedly happened to the boy after his own son, who is friends with the victim, told him that his friend was not feeling well.

“He spoke to the boy and realised the seriousness of the situation. He was obviously very concerned and alerted police.”

According to Sibiya the child was scared because his father had allegedly threatened to kill him if he ever told anyone about what had happened to him.

Popular television actor Patrick Shai – who has admitted that he physically abused his wife – described the incident as “disturbing.”

“This comes after the alleged rape of a very old woman in KwaZulu-Natal. The country is facing an enemy far bigger than apartheid. At least then we knew who the enemy was. Now people simply have no morals,” said Shai.

Shai recently spoke out against escalating rape in the country at a prayer service for a Soweto girl who was allegedly gang-raped by seven men.