Gauteng MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi is at Unity Secondary School in Daveyton this morning (August 17) after a suspected gang member was set alight near the school.
Lesufi will address the learners after one person has died and four others were injured in incidents of “mob justice” in Daveyton over the last two days.
The first was attacked on August 14.
A City Times Facebook follower stated in a private message on our page that “Daveyton residents have had enough of nyaope boys so this is what they’re doing to them because they also killed many people already. This is a group called OVL – they go around Daveyton robbing people and killing them so the community has had enough of these boys – they are killing them one by one. You can come today and see they started this on Tuesday and the community is always meeting every day around 11.30am at Kheswa and Gumbi in Daveyton.”
SAPS provincial spokesperson Captain Mavela Masondo said five men between the ages of 18 and 21 have been attacked and one of them died as a result.
“Police received information that there were three men that were being assaulted by the community,” said Masondo.
“Upon arrival, the crowd ran in different directions. Police found that the three men were badly injured.”
The injured victims were taken to hospital for medical treatment.
Masondo said on August 15, police received information about a man who was being attacked by the community.
“When police responded to the scene, they found a 19-year-old man who was set alight‚ allegedly by the community.
“The victim was taken to hospital by paramedics.
“Later in the day police were called to another scene of mob justice‚ where another 19-year-old man was assaulted by the community,” said Masondo.
The man was certified dead on the scene by the paramedics.
No arrests have been made.
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EMPD spokesperson Clifford Shongwe said on Wednesday (August 15)‚ a group of people went to a Daveyton school with a male in his 20s‚ who they kidnapped to point out one of the learners who is allegedly part of the gang.
“Since they could not find the said learner‚ they then put a tyre around the victim and set it alight‚” said Shongwe.
“According to the school principal, a group came to the school and broke down a locked gate‚ demanding one of the learners.”
Shongwe said the principal said the group hurled insults at him.
“They then dragged a kidnapped man to the school ground‚ where he was set alight with a burning tyre.”
Police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said Gauteng Provincial Commissioner of police, Lieutenant General Deliwe de Lange, has established a high-level task team to stabilise the situation in Daveyton.
The team will work around the clock to ensure the arrests of those responsible for the acts of mob justice of the past two days.
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