Reply #2: Vigilante attacks after Dube murder

[guruoo]

October 20 2007 at 11:56AM

By Kashiefa Ajam, Sheree Béga, Nape Raditlhare and Janet Smith

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Fed-up South Africans, outraged at Dube's death, were reclaiming their streets from the criminals.

According to an eyewitness in Bez Valley, a woman was on her way to work when she was attacked by a man who stole her handbag. Her screams alerted a group of Athlone High School boys, who then chased after him.

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"They caught him and held him down. Between 15 and 20 people heard the commotion and ran to where the boys were. They beat him up and all the while telling him that it was people like him who had gunned down Lucky Dube."

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Late on Friday, police were still questioning Dube's two teenage children, Nonkululeko and Thokozani, who witnessed the botched hijacking of his car in Rosettenville on Thursday night. The singer was killed while driving them to a family member's house in the Joburg suburb at about 8.20pm.

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