Wife details death of husband killed in Diepsloot mob attack
Diepsloot resident Nomsa Tshuma is mourning the death of her husband who was killed by people came to their home shouting “passports”.
Tshuma, who detailed her experience during an interview on SABC says they were watching TV when they heard people start shouting for passports and identity documents.
“We just heard people knocking next door shouting ‘ID passport’.
“We were in (friends) shack watching Uzalo and we decided to run because he (her husband) does not have a ID or passport and I'm the only one that has a passport, so I decided to go with him.
“We ran past some shacks and sat in a passage, just the three us, we sat there and heard people coming into the yard (that they lived in), waking their neighbours up.
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“We sat there at the back waiting to hear what will happen as they’re asking for ID's and passports.”
Tshuma said while sitting they heard someone running on top of the roofs like they were being chased.
“They found out that we renting there and saw the two I was with, they didn't see me as I lay down to hide.”
While her husband and a friend ran, she returned to her shack where people then came looking for her asking where her husband’s gun is.
As she denied knowing of a gun or that her husband owned one. Tshuma says they whipped and repeated the question then asked for R300.
“I told them I don’t work and only have R50 on me.”
She says the men then took the money and left her.
It wasn’t until later that she got a call from a friend of her husband, saying he was burned by the mob that took him.
Police have not been available for comment.
