Durban – Brutal security guards hired by the city are rampaging along the Durban beachfront and beating people with their batons, allegedly killing one man last week.
This is the claim of witnesses who were appalled by the actions of the guards from Isidingo Security Services.
Beachfront resident Mike Appleby said he had been warning authorities it was only a question of time before someone was killed.
He was horrified to hear that a man had allegedly been beaten to death by the guards.
A car guard at Durban’s beachfront has described how a homeless man begging for food was beaten to death, allegedly by four security guards. Not even the man’s cries for mercy could stop the officers from continuing with the vicious, “unprovoked” attack.
“They beat him to a pulp,” said the car guard, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals.
The car guard, who knows the gaurds, said that on Friday last week he saw a commotion near Addington Hospital and heard loud cries for help.
“I heard that the officers were irritated that the man was bothering beachgoers by begging them for food,” he said.
As the man tried to walk away, he was cornered by the four men, who started “whacking” him with their batons.
“The place soon became crowded with people wanting to see what was happening, but I could hear him crying for help and begging for mercy as each officer attacked him.”
The man died soon afterwards.
Police spokesman Major Thulani Zwane confirmed the attack, saying four suspects – Mbongeleni Dlamuka, 23; Bhekithemba Mhlongo, 32; Nozuko Mafunda, 35; and Bhekani Khomo, 41 – had been arrested and charged with murder.
Zwane said the men appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court this week, and the case was adjourned to February 13…
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