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Original Post Date: 2007-12-03 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Niyanta Singh
Three bullets in three separate incidents over the years have ended the lives of three Greytown brothers – the latest this week during the robbery of a supermarket.
The peace of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands town was shattered on Wednesday when robbers carrying AK-47s held up a supermarket, killing one policeman and injuring another.
Residents and business owners, are now beefing up their security systems in a bid to protect themselves. They believe Greytown is vulnerable because of the ease with which it can be accessed from outlying areas such as Tugela Ferry, Keat’s Drift, Dundee and Estcourt.
Six men entered Aheer’s Multisave Superstore in Voortrekker Street and held the manager at gunpoint, forcing him to open the safe and hand over a large sum of money. Some staff members were also held at gunpoint.
Pensioners from the Arcadia and Concorde Home for the Elderly, who routinely shop at the supermarket on Wednesdays, were also caught up in the robbery. Among them were 76- and 80-year-olds who had guns pointed at them, were shoved to the floor and robbed of their belongings.
Oblivious to the robbery in progress, two policemen Insp Ajeet “Baboo” Mewa, 49, and Insp Navin Maharaj, 43, of the Greytown Dog Unit, were passing the store on a routine patrol. The robbers, assuming the two had arrived to apprehend them, opened fire, killing Mewa and seriously injuring Maharaj.
Maharaj, shot in the neck while trying to fire at the suspects, is recuperating at a Pietermaritzburg hospital.
In a bid to get away, the robbers then hijacked shoppers’ vehicles. The cars were later found abandoned in the area. Swift police action led to the arrest of nine suspects in and around Greytown and the recovery of several unlicensed firearms, including AK-47s, and several vehicles that had recently been hijacked.
Some of the suspects have been remanded for a bail application after appearing in the Greytown Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Police are confident of more arrests.
Veerod Mewa, brother of the dead policeman said: “We are angry and can’t explain how we feel. We have had three brothers taken away from us by three bullets. How do we explain to our 84-year-old mother that another of her sons has been killed.
Reminder
When I received the message about the shooting all I could ask was whether Ajeet had made it. Those words ‘did he make it’, took me back to the other two occasions when we received news of my other brothers’ deaths.”
He said his other two brothers, Roy and Rubie Mewa, had been shot and killed in separate incidents several years ago.
He said Ajeet’s widow, Roshni, and children Alisha, 22, Sarisha, 20 and Jitesh, 16, were in denial over the death.
“Baboo was as fierce as a lion and timid as a lamb. When everyone else failed, Baboo never gave up,” Mewa said.
Testimony to Mewa’s character were the glowing tributes paid at his funeral on Thursday by the former Greytown SAPS station commander Supt Caroline Minaar and SAPS Midlands communications head Senior Supt Henry Budhram.
Instrumental in setting up the dog unit in Greytown, Mewa had served with the SAPS for 28 years.
He had also been awarded several medals for service and bravery. Described by his colleagues as an “inspiration” and “driving force”, Mewa’s love of dogs spurred him on to excel at his career.