Former Sizok’thola presenter Xolani Khumalo is alleged to have killed a Congolese man during a raid.
According to recent reports, former “Sizok’thola” and host Xolani Khumalo and his crew have been accused of killing a Congolese national during a drug raid that did not go as planned.
They are said to have continued their involvement in busting suspected drug dealers even after he was fired by the Moja Love, where “Sizok’thola” aired. Reports reveal they allegedly kicked and stomped on Heriter Abuba after they raided a Congolese nightclub in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, on suspicion that it is a place for drug dealers.
Abuba’s brother John Wembo, in a comment to Sunday World, said Khumalo and the police raided the Y2K nightclub on March 20 and parked their vehicles outside the club.
They were ordered to lie down by some of the crew members while others blitzed into the watering hole and demanded they bring their drugs out. According to him, his brother, unaware of what was happening, arrived during the raid. Khumalo and his crew (wearing big boots and carrying guns) ordered his brother to lie down, during which one of the crew members kicked him in the abdomen, and he fell to the ground.
Wembo said, “My brother started bleeding profusely while the other crew members joined in and started stomping on him.”
They asked him to stand up after stomping on him, but he couldn’t. They then lifted him and sat him on a chair.
“After a while, my brother asked the guys to allow him to go pee, and when they allowed him, he stood up but collapsed.”
He said that when they sensed he was dying, they called an ambulance to take him to a public hospital in Kempton Park.
“Unfortunately, my brother passed on after being admitted to the hospital.” Wembo later retrieved Abuba’s body from Tembisa Hospital and transported it to the Germiston mortuary for a postmortem. His brother is survived by a wife and two children.
