MEC Macie demands eye-for-an-eye justice for cop killers

“I do not forgive. I’m not these New Testament Christians. [It is] an eye for an eye for me.”

These were the words of Mpumalanga MEC for community safety, security and liaison Jackie Macie during the funeral of Sgt Lawrence Dumisani Mtshweni, who was shot while responding to a robbery last week.

He died in hospital hours later.

Two men have since been arrested for his murder, while two others were shot dead by police in Eswatini last week. Another suspect shot himself in the head before the police could arrest him. 

At the service held at Schoemansdal community hall on Saturday, Macie said: “There’s no hippo’s calf that can be devoured by crocodiles and the river settles,” Macie said. 

“Let me address comrade Lawrence Dumisani Mtshweni. Thanks, Mtshweni, that you died with your boots on and fought to the end. Sgt Mtshweni died when he was trying to protect the citizens and property of South Africans.



Mandla Khoza
www.sowetanlive.co.za

Mandla Khoza
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