Family’s pain over bystander killed in bus ‘gang hit’

Siblings still in shock at loss of brother as two appear in court for shooting

23 April 2021 - 11:48 By Devon Koen
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Fortune Nyathi, 28, was shot dead when he was caught in a shooting after buying a bus ticket to Johannesburg on April 2.
Fortune Nyathi, 28, was shot dead when he was caught in a shooting after buying a bus ticket to Johannesburg on April 2.
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When a “hard-working, God-fearing” man bought a ticket to board a bus travelling from Gqeberha to Gauteng, he would have had no idea he would not live to see his family — eagerly anticipating his arrival for the Easter weekend — again. 

Fortune Nyathi, 28, was in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

Bullets ripped through the bodies of a suspected gang member and his girlfriend, allegedly targeted by a rival gang, but Nyathi was hit as well.

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