Shot dead a week before turning one: Reiger Park gang war’s tiny victim

Siyabonga Buthelezi was in his sister’s arms in the yard of his modest Windmill Park home when a stray bullet tore through his little body in the crossfire between rival gang members.

He died in hospital a day after the shooting in the east of Johannesburg. He would have turned one a week later.

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