TEMBISA, SOUTH AFRICA Residents of a black township raised bail for a murder suspect, then burnt him to death after he was condemned by a kangaroo court.
A tire filled with petrol was hung around the suspect's neck and set alight. |
The people of the Winnie Mandela squatter camp in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg, hung a tyre [sic] filled with petrol around the neck of the suspect, Johannes Masemela, then set it alight. |
Three months ago television showed a group of youths stripped and tied to a lamppost in a township outside Cape Town being whipped after being "convicted" of raping a young girl. |
"Paying bail for criminals and then killing them is liked by everybody." |