Caledon protest
Four months on, Ipid still probing deaths of Caledon protestors
In April this year, 17-year-old Jason Windvogel and 26-year-old Tebogo Matselebane, were gunned down during housing demonstrations in the Overberg town.
The pair was gunned down during housing and service delivery protests in the Overberg town in April this year.
Frustrated residents last week protested over a lack of housing and service delivery in the area.
Protesters claim there’s been a lack of service delivery in their communities for more than a decade.
Bongani Mkongi has vowed that authorities are working tirelessly to determine who was behind the shots that killed the demonstrators&.
Jason Windvogel, aged 17, is one of two people who died while protesting for housing and better service delivery.
A crowd of supporters has gathered around the police nyala from where Mkongi addresses them.
Service delivery demonstrations took a deadly turn on Thursday as two protestors were shot dead and two others were wounded.
He is one of a group of residents who tried to march to the local municipal offices on Thursday but was blocked by law enforcement officials.
Police have used tear gas and are preventing a group of demonstrators from advancing closer to the main road.
Police watchdog Ipid said that the crime scene will now have to be reconstructed as it was cleared when their investigators arrived on the scene.
They are demanding, among other things, decent housing, land and proper sanitation.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) has confirmed the pair was shot dead during service delivery demonstrations on Thursday 4 April.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) has confirmed the pair was shot dead during service delivery demonstrations earlier on Thursday.
Community leaders will be meeting with Theewaterskloof municipality officials on Thursday afternoon.
Police have confirmed there was a shooting but the circumstances are unclear at this stage.