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Original Post Date: 2008-04-28 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Karen Breytenbach
A teenager is being kept at a “place of safety” after being arrested in connection with the murder of Grace Kalima, a honeymooning lay preacher and photographer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who was stabbed trying to help a security guard fend off four suspected robbers.
Kalima’s unemployed widow, Maggie, 24, is now relying on help from the NGO sector, a new neighbourhood, and prayer to cope.
Sylvanus Dixon, of the Scalabrini refugee centre, visited her last week to assess the situation.
During his visit, Pastor Alexis Mputu, of the Message of Life Ministry and an attorney from the DRC, prayed fervently, with his hands on the kneeling widow’s shoulders.
Kalima died in Kraaifontein two weeks ago, on the ninth day of his honeymoon. His bloody hand mark remains imprinted on a stairwell wall in the Shosholoza apartment complex where he and his bride were living.
Kalima had wept and prayed through the night before his death, as though he had a foreboding, his widow said.
At 5pm the next day, he was about to carry newly bought furniture into the couple’s flat, when he went to help a security guard keep four teenagers, one armed with a screwdriver, from forcing their way through the car gate into the complex.
The complex’s electric fence was partially cut. The 28s prison gang emblem is spray-painted on the wall.
A girlfriend of one of the teenagers, who worked in the complex, supplied a knife, according to witnesses.
When the teen with the knife lunged, the guard jumped back, but his forearm was cut. The knife was then directed at Kalima and severed his jugular vein.
Almez Alema, the couple’s Ethiopian neighbour, said Kalima, bleeding profusely, stumbled to her door and told her he needed help as he was dying.
“I gave him a piece of clothing to press against his neck. He stumbled back to the gate and collapsed. We phoned the police and ambulance. I asked everyone with a car if we could take him to hospital. They all said they didn’t want to get blood on their seats.
“I ran to the street to stop a car. We carried him and his eyes were dead, but his heart was beating. By the time someone agreed to take him, 15 minutes later, he was dead.”
The murder has angered people in the neighbourhood, who say they feel they are being victimised by criminals.
Kraaifontein police have confirmed there are frequent call-outs to the crime-hit complex.
Mputu and others, concerned that the authorities viewed them as outsiders, said they were worried about comments made by some officers who came to investigate Kalima’s death.
Fearing vigilantism, the police arrived in more than 12 vehicles and tried to subdue the crowd who had gathered in the courtyard, eventually using rubber bullets.
The teenaged knifeman had “stood right there, watching the commotion, and the police did nothing”, witnesses said.
The police said they were trying to be cautious and arrested the 17-year-old “at the right time”. He appeared in the Blue Downs magistrate’s court two days later and was denied bail.
Mrs Kalima, Alema, and Mputu and his “traumatised” wife and two children, who saw the attack on Kalima, have moved to “safer” Brackenfell.
The Kraaifontein police have advised Mrs Kalima to seek help from the department of social development.