“Road rage has caused many unpleasant incidents between total strangers. People need to realize that they do not own the road, things happen and they have to act civilly. Unfortunately, in this incident, one moment of the officer’s road rage left a young boy dead and her kids were left to grow up without their mother around. Just heartbreaking,” Nicole Botha, 41, of Cape Town, South Africa told YourJewishNews.com after learning about Mkhize’s jail sentence.
“Mkhize had been well trained in the justice system and she tried to manipulate the system by opening a case of attempted kidnapping against the victims instead of handing herself over for murder,” social worker Philiswa Zungu said.
Mkhize has two children, aged 14 and 11 months, with two different men. Both fathers reportedly told the social worker that they were prepared to take care of their child if Mkhize went to jail, according to court documents. Mkhize was sentenced to 15 years for murder, of which five years were suspended. She was also sentenced to 5-years in prison for four attempted murders of the other people who were in the car. The sentences will run concurrently.
“The Independent Police Investigative Directorate is pleased with the sentence, as it sends a message to police officers that they will be held accountable if they misuse their firearms and their authority,” IPID spokesperson Moses Dlamini said.
Story didn’t make any sense; normally, when a police officer shoots someone, they go on paid administrative leave for a while, and then return to work.
Further reading of the story, though, reveals that the incident did not take place in this country.
I know how she would vote if offered the opportunity...
A local event in South Africa...?
When reporting a crime how about mentioning that it was in a foreign country?
South Africa, they have no rule of law there, either.
“LOCATION” should be a mandatory field in posting a thread.
I’m tired of having to search for the city, state, and even NATION where an event takes place because someone posts a local article for local consumption that takes place half way around the world or on the other coast, and gives us NO CLUE where the event took place.
Location should be right there with the rest of the heading.
Then without even clicking off the main page, I would know this story is from “SOUTH AFRICA”.
She got off easy, obviously not fit to be a cop.
Who shives a git what some woman cop with issues does in South Africa?