CAPE TOWN – Collins Khosa was killed by law enforcement officers in a poor township in Johannesburg over a cup of beer left in his yard.
The 40-year-old black man was choked, slammed against a wall, beaten, kicked and hit with the butt of a rifle by the soldiers as police watched, his family says.Two months later, South Africans staged a march against police brutality.
But it was mostly about the killing of George Floyd in the United States, with the case of Khosa, who died on April 10, raised only briefly.“We also lost our loved one.
South Africa, where are you?” Khosa’s partner, Nomsa Montsha, asked in a wrenching TV interview Friday, eight weeks after she held his hand as he died while waiting for an ambulance.Her words, in a soft,.