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Black residents butcher thugs

Chilling stories about enraged black kasi residents butchering thugs who terrorise them are increasing.

People sweep aside police pleas not to take the law into their own hands. Their answer to thuggery is death by panga, stoning and fire!

Daily Sun has horrifying video footage of residents slaughtering alleged thugs. In the Free State capital, kasi residents went on the rampage this Wednesday against the Maroma gang, who are accused of taking pupils from schools and disrupting exams.

Three men were killed with pangas, spades and knobkerries.

And in Mpumalanga, enraged residents killed two men who allegedly raped and killed a pregnant woman and robbed her family of R8 800. A gruesome video shows a Mangaung kasi resident stabbing a man as he lay on the ground.

The raging crowd chanted: “Maroma gang members are cowards who target pupils! We will show them how we deal with cowards!”

A 40-year-old taverner was killed at Mangaung’s phase 4 on Wednesday morning after residents stormed his house looking for his son, said to be a gang member.

Then, as night fell, two unnamed men were killed in Mangaung’s phase 3 and phase 7 kasis. A parent said: “Today the grade 11 and 12 pupils were supposed to be writing exams but the lunatics stopped them.”

Brigadier Billy Jones said 14 people were arrested for public violence. “Cases of attempted murder, murder and malicious damage to property are being investigated.

In Saselani outside Dwaarsloop, Mpumalanga, residents went on the rampage this Tuesday after the horror five thugs allegedly unleashed on Friday night, when they forced their way into a family’s shack. Family member Stanley Mashaba (24) said: “The gunmen demanded the R8 800 my mum got from her stokvel. They hit me with a plank and the butts of their guns until I fainted.”

Stanley said they threatened his seven-month pregnant sister Charlotte (20) with a gun, slapped her around and threatened to shoot her if she didn’t hand over the money. Begging for her life, she gave them the money. The thugs left but returned a moment later, wanting to kill Stanley. The sisters begged for mercy.

Then, calling Charlotte a magosha, they dragged her to a nearby stream. They allegedly stripped her, raped her and shot her dead. This Tuesday, angry residents went looking for the thugs. They caught Bongani Mkhabela (24) and forced him to point out his friends.

He led the people to Lloyd Moon (20), and they beat him to a pulp with rocks and sticks. Brigadier Selvy Mohlala said residents took Bongani to the spot where they allegedly killed Charlotte. “They assaulted him and burned him with a tyre.”

Source: Daily Sun

Thief dies in hail of stones

The mood turned violent as someone cast the first stone. A barrage followed and the suspected thief died in the hail.

These scenes, the latest incident of mob justice, unfolded in Protea South in Soweto on Wednesday when irate residents assaulted four men they accused of stealing from them, among other crimes.

An enraged mob of more than 100 people, mostly women, took matters into their own hands when they assaulted the man they suspected of stealing a grass cutter from one of the houses in Protea South. A woman was reportedly hanging out her washing around 6am when the suspect allegedly entered her yard and snatched a grass cutter.

Residents were alerted to the crime when she screamed.

They forced the man to take them to the accomplices with whom he normally works.

The incensed residents then dragged four of the men across the township to their community police forum (CPF), which then alerted the police.

When police arrived, the mob turned on them too – stoning them and their vehicles.

Bloodstains on the floor of the CPF’s tin shack office were mopped up only hours after one of the suspects died.

When forensic pathology services picked up his body, residents ululated, cheered and shouted “That’s what we do to criminals”.

Police spokesman Captain Mpande Khoza said no arrests had been made.

The three surviving suspects, believed to be in their 20s, were taken to hospital.

Five black minors stone friend to death

It is not yet certain whether five black minors from North West, who are accused of murder, will appear in court tomorrow.

This is according to police spokesperson Sabata Mokgwabone, and follows after the arrest of the minors along with two older suspects for allegedly killing a schoolboy at Kgakala township in Leeudoringstad.

Mokgwabone says the 17-year-old was apparently stoned to death yesterday.

He added that the minors are currently undergoing assessment by social workers, and that if they should appear tomorrow it will most likely be in camera.

Mokgwabone told OFM News that the motive of the incident is unknown at this stage, and the investigation continues.

Beverly Hills Hotel boycotted over ‘human rights’

The Beverly Hills Hotel is part of the Dorchester Collection, a luxury chain owned by the Sultan of Brunei. This week, the tiny, oil-rich southeast Asian country set off a storm of celebrity protests and boycotts by introducing Islamic laws that include death by stoning for homosexuals and adulterers.

Over the past several days, 20 events have been canceled at the Beverly Hills property–a loss of about $2 million in revenue for the hotel, according to Dorchester. Local politicians and celebrities are also boycotting the nearby Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles, the hotel’s more subdued sister property.

British billionaire Richard Branson took to Twitter over the weekend to declare that no Virgin employee or Branson family member will stay at Dorchester hotel “until the Sultan abides by basic human rights.”

Big names like Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres are urging boycotts, and the Beverly Hills mayor and council are calling for Dorchester to sell the famed hotel.

Dorchester, which runs 10 hotels world-wide, is looking to expand globally and has said it is seeking to acquire a luxury property in New York. Hotel analysts say the publicity surrounding protests against the company could complicate efforts to operate a Manhattan hotel, where there is also opposition to the new law.

The participation of Hollywood’s A-list in the boycott has been painful because the hotel has long been a see-and-be-seen spot to eat, sleep and fundraise. The hotel’s Polo Lounge restaurant is one of this city’s prime power-lunch spots. One event earlier this year attracted stars including Will Smith and Sandra Bullock.

Coming events like a “Women in Entertainment” breakfast thrown by the Hollywood Reporter in December, and a “Night Before the Oscars” fundraiser held by the Motion Picture & Television Fund, have been moved from the hotel.

Dorchester’s London-based chief executive, Christopher Cowdray–who has been in Los Angeles this week to speak to hotel employees and customers and to try to quell the political backlash–said that Dorchester hotels is a big employer, pays taxes and “abides by the laws of the countries in which we operate.” He added that the Brunei Investment Agency, the government investment vehicle that owns Dorchester, is a “long-term investor” and that a sale of the Los Angeles-area properties was “unlikely.”

On Tuesday night, the Beverly Hills city council unanimously approved a resolution condemning Brunei for its new laws, and urging Brunei to sell its Beverly Hills property.

Source: WSJ

Stoning of teenager divides community

Scores of residents from East London and surrounding areas braved the rain and gathered at Nompumelelo Township to bid farewell to a learner who was stoned to death by a mob that accused him of child snatching.

Mbuyiselo Ayanda Mtati was a Grade 12 learner at Sakhikamva Senior Secondary School at the time of his death. At least eight suspects, all of them women, are still in police custody in connection with his murder.

Social Development MEC Pemmy Majodina has described the incident as gruesome.

“ I feel very much depressed, demotivated and hurt because I fight for the rights of women but today it’s women who have turned against that and killed their own child. If you are a mother you are supposed to protect a child but today I see something very different and I regret what has been done by these mothers.”

The MEC highlights that the law must take its course and they must not get bail as that has been the case in other similar incidents.

“A murder is a murder and we must treat everyone equally,” Majodina says.

Family spokesperson, Lunga Gqotso, says that the family is still hurt and wants the suspects to face the full might of the law.

“We want justice; the law must take its course. If they find them guilty, they must lock them and throw the keys away so that we can be relieved. We don’t want the culprits to be with the people of Nompumelelo,”

However, Gqotso says that the family is worried because the community may take the law into their own hands.

“We don’t want the community of Nompumelelo to be divided. We want justice.”

Man stoned to death in Soweto

A man was found stoned to death in Jabulani, Soweto, police said on Tuesday.

The 31-year-old man was found by a passer-by, surrounded by bloody rocks in a Jabulani hostel on Monday evening around 9.35pm, Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said.

“When we found him he was still alive but couldn’t speak. He died at the hospital upon arrival,” he said.

No arrests had yet been made.

Makhubela urged those who might have witnessed the crime to come forward.

“We know the people who live there might have seen what happened,” Makhubela said. – Sapa