Mercury: Councillor charged over Albert Park deaths

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Councillor charged over Albert Park deaths

18 August 2009, 23:13
By Kamini Padayachee

Vusi Khoza, ward councillor of Albert Park in Durban, will have to answer to charges of murder and attempted murder relating to an alleged xenophobic attack.

Khoza and his co-accused – Sean Thabo Jacobs, 24, Nkosinathi Dlamini, 24, Delisile Ngwane, 54, Linda Nala, 42, Zoleka Sigcau, 50, Patricia Ballantyne, 67, and Mzokuthoba Mnonyama, 39 – were charged with murder, attempted murder, assault and public violence relating to the incident.

During the incident in January, Zimbabwean refugee Victor Zowa, 24, and Tanzanian national Said Omari, 22, died after falling from a sixth-floor window. A third man was seriously injured during the incident.

Khoza was arrested a month after the incident after police obtained evidence that he had allegedly been the leader of an armed mob which had entered Africa House building in Albert Park and “forced” people to jump from the sixth floor.