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New Year’s festivities end in tragedy
Survivor to sue police Mr Vhutshilo Tshikororo, photographed at his vehicle. The rear window was shattered by bullets. By Elmon Tshikhudo The survivor of a mysterious shooting by the police on New Year ’s Eve, who was recently cleared by the court of any wrongdoing, said he would “not take the matter lying down”. Speaking to Limpopo Mirror at a car wash at Sibasa, where he was washing his car after it was handed back to him by the police, Mr Vhutshilo Tshikororo said he would never forget the incident which left his close friend, Musiiwa Makungo, dead. The incident happened at a spot not far from Thohoyandou Technical High
School. “We were in a celebratory mood at around 23:00, driving from Thohoyandou in Block F, when I noticed that we were be ing followed by an unknown vehicle after passing the school,” said Tshikororo. He said they had seen a car parked under trees in the dark just at the crossing to the school and they had not suspected anything. “All of a sudden, we could see that a car was chasing after us and I had to accelerate because I feared that we would be hi jacked,” he said. They then heard gunshots and the falling of broken glass behind them. “I realised that we were being shot at and
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saw that my friend was critically wounded. I stopped and the police hit me all over the body, and that was when I told them that they had shot my friend,” he said. According to him, the incident has left him traumatised, and there was no way that he would leave the matter as it stood. He intends to sue the police. “We are lawabiding citizens. These police do as they wish and shoot at innocent people. My friend is gone now for nothing.” - Continues on page 2
Tshikoro shows some marks that he sustained during the attack.