Mob justice seen as a brutal response to ineffective policing in Zandspruit

23 May 2021 - 00:00 By KGAUGELO MASWENENG and GILL GIFFORD

It did not occur to Mpho Seapi to alert the police when he learnt that his brother was being burnt alive at Zandspruit informal settlement in Johannesburg...

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