Category Archives: Jayden Khoza

M&G: Marikana activist: My prison ordeal

On June 4 activist Napoleon Webster will have spent 150 days in Rustenburg prison.

He has been charged with the murder of an ANC councillor in Marikana, in the North West province, but his lawyers and supporters are adamant it is a stitch-up.

They contend that Webster, an Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) member who has been involved in support campaigns linked to the 2012 Marikana massacre and in Marikana’s housing struggles, is being persecuted for his activism. Continue reading →

Justice for Baby Jayden

31 May 2017

Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA Press Statement

Justice for Baby Jayden

On Monday the Foreman Road community in Clare Estate, Durban, came under serious police assault after a road blockade that had been organised earlier that morning. That protest was disruptive but it was also peaceful. Baby Jayden Khoza, two weeks old, lost his life during the brutal police assault on the community. The next day the headline on the front page of The Mercury said that baby Jayden had died during a protest. We wish to be clear: baby Jayden did not die during a protest. He was killed during a police assault on the Foreman Road community following a protest. Continue reading →

The Mercury: Baby killed in protest

30 May 2017

Bernadette Wolhuter, The Mercury

Baby killed in protest

The mother of a 2-week-old baby boy who died, allegedly after inhaling tear gas fired by police during a service delivery protest in Durban in the early hours of Monday morning, wept as she watched his tiny body being carried to the state mortuary van in a white plastic packet.

Friends and family stood silently at her side, their heads bowed.

One held the blue fleece blanket they had wrapped baby Jayden Khoza in, before marching his body to the local police station. Continue reading →

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Daily News: Mother carries dead baby to police station

Daily News

Mother carries dead baby to police station

29 May 2017, 11:18am

MPHATHI NXUMALO

DURBAN – A grieving mother, accompanied by dozens of neighbours walked the body of her dead two-week-old child into the Sydenham police station on Monday.

Residents of the Foreman Road informal settlement in Clare Estate claim that baby Jayden Khoza died during a police raid on the settlement on Monday.

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Freedom News: South Africa: Shack dwellers besiege police station after cops kill baby in assault on settlement

Freedom News

South Africa: Shack dwellers besiege police station after cops kill baby in assault on settlement

Published May 29, 2017

A furious, mourning community marched on Sydenham police station in Durban today after a police assault on the city’s Foreman Road shack settlement led to the death of two-week-old baby Jayden Khoza.

Shack dwellers crossed the short distance to the suburban station, sited next to a school, with the body of the baby who was present along with many other children when police started firing rubber bullets and tear gas into the settlement, filling people’s homes with gas. Many have been injured and there was one arrest. Continue reading →