Prayers ring out to put end to police killings
"How can a man of law be killed in front of hundreds of people? Our people are ignorant, they should have intervened and saved him," she said. "Police help in fighting crime, it saddens us to see them being brutally murdered.
BURGERSFORT – More than 5 000 people converged on the Shekinah Christian Worship Centre this past Saturday for a mass prayer service addressing police killings in the country.
The aim of the gathering was to raise awareness of the important role the police play in communities, pray for an end to police killings and foster healthy relations between communities and the men and women in blue.
The prayer was attended by various faith-based organisations, MEC for Limpopo’s Department of Safety, Security and Liaison, Ms Mapula Mokaba Phukwana, Sekhukhune District Municipality (SDM)’s mayor,Cllr David Mogobo Magabe, local communities, Community Policing Forum representatives, church leaders, Limpopo SAPS’s provincial commissioner Lt Gen Fanie Masemola and representatives from the Greater Tubatse Municipality (GTM).
Phukwana urged communities to help in ensuring that those responsible for the killings were brought to book.
Phukwana shared her disappointment about the community of Jane Furse that allegedly watched as a police officer,W/O Boshego Joel Seloga, was killed while he tried to apprehend a wanted suspect a month ago.
“How can a man of law be killed in front of hundreds of people? Our people are ignorant, they should have intervened and saved him,” she said. “Police help in fighting crime, it saddens us to see them being brutally murdered.
We are pleading with communities to have a paradigm shift in their relations with police.
