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Original Post Date: 2008-11-01 Time: 00:00:11 Posted By: Jan
By Ziyanda Zidumo
The family of the police officer shot dead in Lingelethu West, Khayelitsha, have threatened legal action against the police.
Relatives claim they have been lied to about whether Constable Makhikhaya Somdaka was alone in the police van at the time of his death. They say if his partner had been with him, he would not have died.
The police version is that Somdaka, 29, was with his partner when he was shot dead on Tuesday morning while seated in his police van, and that his partner had been found unharmed inside the vehicle.
| That boy just said, ‘I saw nothing’ |
Somdaka was in Lingelethu West to drop off a mentally-ill man found wandering in their area.
But Somdaka’s family said they had been suspicious of the story from the start. His uncle, Daluxolo Sipika, said the story told to them by police was confusing, and they had questions they wanted the police to answer.
Sipika said eyewitnesses had said Somdaka had been alone in the police van.
This was confirmed by a reliable police source who told the Cape Argus the constable was alone.
Another source said “we’re investigating if he (the partner) was there, because we also suspect that he was not there”.
| ‘I will not rest until action is taken against whoever is responsible in the SAPS’ |
Sipika said the police had failed to answer the family’s questions about what the partner had been doing when the shooting took place.
“If that colleague was there, I don’t care how shocked he was, but with his gun he would have backed him up and saved my nephew,” Sipika said.
On Wednesday night about 15 of Somdaka’s colleagues, including the one he was supposedly with at the time he was shot in the head, visited his family at their home in Mandela Park to pay their respects.
Somdaka’s father Xolile said that when they were about to leave, his wife Nonathu asked to speak to the partner in a bid to find out exactly what had happened.
“That boy just said, ‘I saw nothing’ and he left,” Somdaka’s father said. “My blood just boiled when he said that. His vague answer stated that he really was not there.”
He said the police officer concerned could not look them in the eye and had been nervous throughout the evening.
He had been the first to leave and went to sit in the minibus that had transported the group to the Somdaka home.
“I will not rest until action is taken against whoever is responsible in the SAPS,” Xolile said.
The family asserted that police were aware of the dangers of working in Khayelitsha, and had been negligent in sending Somdaka into the area alone.
Provincial police spokesperson Superintendent Billy Jones, said on Thursday he could not comment on the incident.