Taxi driver, Macia killed by SA police, now family receiving death threats
Published: 2013 March 04 08:18:53 (3774 Views)
Mido Macia's sister-in-law Lindiwe Ngwenya has said that her family have received death threats over the phone.
The voice continued: “You like things and you will get what’s coming to you. You are doing this for a foreigner but you won’t do it for a South African.”
The woman who identified herself only as Nhlanhla then ended the phone call which was from a private number.
But the family told Daily Sun Paper that they are united in their call that the cops who dragged Mido be put behind bars for a long time!
Lindiwe, a South African who is married to Mido’s brother, a Mozambican, said they are scared when they get these calls but she does not regret speaking out.
She said they are also haunted by police vans driving slowly past their house with cops looking at them and waving and looking angry.
“But we will not be intimidated into silence,” she said.
She said the family welcomes the arrest of the cops but they are not entirely satisfied.
“We want these cops to come to bury Mido in Maputo when we go to the funeral,” she said.
Speaking from Mozambique, Biuda Mazive, Mido’s girlfriend and mother of his three-year-old son, said: “These cops must be dragged behind a car like they did to the father of my son.”
Emidio Macia (27), known as Mido, died in the Daveyton police cells last Tuesday night after he was dragged from the back of the police van.
The incident was captured on two videos published by Daily Sun on Thursday and Friday.
Gauteng police spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini, said: “The family can open a case of intimidation.”
On Friday, national police commissioner, General Riah Phiyega announced that the cops were suspended and that the station commander at the Daveyton cop show was removed from the station.
Moses Dlamini, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate national spokesman, said the suspects are expected to appear at the Daveyton Magistrates Court.
Gauteng Premier, Nomvula Mokonyane, said the government will support the two children who were Mido’s dependants. The kids are Macia’s three-year-old son who lives with his mum in Mozambique and his seven-year-old niece, whom Macia has been taking care of since the girl’s father died.
“The president of South Africa, his minister of police and his national commissioner should be ashamed of themselves,” said Dianne Kohler Barnard, the DA’s shadow minister of police who, along with a number of senior DA members, visited the scene where Mido had been dragged behind the van.
- Daily Sun
The voice continued: “You like things and you will get what’s coming to you. You are doing this for a foreigner but you won’t do it for a South African.”
The woman who identified herself only as Nhlanhla then ended the phone call which was from a private number.
But the family told Daily Sun Paper that they are united in their call that the cops who dragged Mido be put behind bars for a long time!
Lindiwe, a South African who is married to Mido’s brother, a Mozambican, said they are scared when they get these calls but she does not regret speaking out.
She said they are also haunted by police vans driving slowly past their house with cops looking at them and waving and looking angry.
“But we will not be intimidated into silence,” she said.
She said the family welcomes the arrest of the cops but they are not entirely satisfied.
“We want these cops to come to bury Mido in Maputo when we go to the funeral,” she said.
Speaking from Mozambique, Biuda Mazive, Mido’s girlfriend and mother of his three-year-old son, said: “These cops must be dragged behind a car like they did to the father of my son.”
Emidio Macia (27), known as Mido, died in the Daveyton police cells last Tuesday night after he was dragged from the back of the police van.
The incident was captured on two videos published by Daily Sun on Thursday and Friday.
Gauteng police spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Lungelo Dlamini, said: “The family can open a case of intimidation.”
On Friday, national police commissioner, General Riah Phiyega announced that the cops were suspended and that the station commander at the Daveyton cop show was removed from the station.
Moses Dlamini, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate national spokesman, said the suspects are expected to appear at the Daveyton Magistrates Court.
Gauteng Premier, Nomvula Mokonyane, said the government will support the two children who were Mido’s dependants. The kids are Macia’s three-year-old son who lives with his mum in Mozambique and his seven-year-old niece, whom Macia has been taking care of since the girl’s father died.
“The president of South Africa, his minister of police and his national commissioner should be ashamed of themselves,” said Dianne Kohler Barnard, the DA’s shadow minister of police who, along with a number of senior DA members, visited the scene where Mido had been dragged behind the van.
- Daily Sun
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