Mob killings in South Africa

All the photo's in this article was obtained by means of internet. The reason for me placing this article is to show the aggressive and ill disciplined actions in the urban areas and when people go against the "Traditional people in charge". The mob killings is as described is when the community takes the law in own hands without formal trial. The picture above was where the boy was alleged accused of stealing.

The accused normally get stripped naked after being found guilty by leaders and hand over to the community to be punished and evenly killed for their crimes.

Sometimes, This was a common practice many years ago. (Especially when apposing the ANC in the apartheid years). A motor vehicle tire is being taken and put over the head and then it would be set on fire while the accuse is still alive. The following pictures is just random to place emphasis on the brutality.

It normally happens that when the police hear about this and try to intervene and assist, the police get attacked. If one of the mob members or participating community members get injured, the media change the story to police brutality.

Here the police stand guard at a mob killing struggling to prevent members of the community to still continue destroying the corps.

Metro police official being attacked trying to intervene.


I am not here to create a bad image of South Africa, but is doing it just for informative reasons. Many times the Media would just tell the one side of a story to the world. These are not isolated incidents and happen on a daily basis in South Africa. I can go so far to say that it is such a common thing happening that it only reaches the media until someone get injured or killed through police action trying to save the accused. As stated these incidents involve not only a certain group of people but when it happens, the whole community participate and even children. I would suggest that if one would verify my article to search for articles and video footage on the internet. This is also the way that Xenephobia attacks occur.

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