Residents went to the victims in search of their families right after the Soweto mass shooting at Mdlalose Place. One of those killed was the brother of Petrus Mkhize.”He told me he was heading to the tavern to play snooker just hours before the incident. When I got the phone informing me that there had been a shooting there, I hurried to find out what was happening. When I arrived, he had already passed away “Mr. Mkhize remarked
Law enforcement has come under fire from the local populace for not doing enough to protect them. Bheki Cele, the minister of police, paid them a visit on Monday to address them and chat with the detectives.The police are doing their jobs, Mr. Cele assured me, but he acknowledged that more was required.
“Yes, we could [do] much better and we should do much better, but to say we’re not doing anything, otherwise [is not right] – we would not be sitting with a prison population that is 27% overpopulated if police were not doing anything.”He did, however, acknowledge that the police force is underfunded and even outnumbered.South Africa has one of the highest rates of crime in the world, with a preponderance of infamously violent crimes.
