sadly there are whites like "Anonymous" who say "Blacks look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings" you must not speak as if you know G-d, your white skin does not make you a better person because you are filled with hate for black people, what a shame, you are not superior to any human being. you're just a rasist white. luckily there are GOOD white people out there and we BLACK don't think all white are the same because they are not. but you will wish you had not written those word when you stand before G-d.

Dont blame it on SAPS. Punish those individuals who did that.The system is good (Shoot to kill). If you want the system to go give a better one that will eliminate crime then?!

SAPS.... aka gangersters with badges

@Anonymous, you must have an evil human in you, does punching a policeman warrant a police to shoot a human being, one man among many police officers Anonymous!!!! you must be ashamed with your comments, this is one's life we are talking about. maybe you will understand if someone close to you has suffered that brutality....

Zee, you SERIOUSLY need to check your spelling. The word is ATTACKED. Not "attached" Yesterday, I had to read your drivel with the most horrid sentences. Where are you from? Tasmania?

look at the bigger picture here. This incident would never have happened if service delivery was tops in the first place.Welcome to the new SA where corruption,service delivery etc. is rife , fat cats getting richer , poor getting poorer , but people will still vote for these people.Do not complain . YOU have voted for this to happen , deal with it now.

Geronimo: Do you find what the cops did acceptable?Regardless of the reasons, no one is entiltled to kill a fellow human in South Africa and as a South African i find your comments rather insensitive and misguided. Do you have any idea what his family is going through? I know we are all entitled to our opinions but some of the comments that i read here are just pro-police, maybe you are a cop and you condone this but let me give you a brotherly advice:these killings will not go unnoticed and one day someone is will answer for all this brutality.

The blame should be laid at the hands of the ANC - they are the ones who didn't deliver.

If the people voted for the correct party to deliver services to them there wouldn't be any need to protest. Sadly these protesters will still continue to vote for the ANC and will get the same old sad stories from the ANC for the next 4 years. It seems they enjoy living under false promises, incompetant councilors - almost as if they wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they had nothing to complain about.

All the cops involved should be arrested and supsended immediately. We do not need thugs like this in the police. Let them carry on like this and soon the public will start to fight back and take out these scum police. I for one am getting sick and tired of their corruption, thuggery and thievery. They are worse than the criminals they are supposed to be fighting against.

WOW!I SAW THE CLIP ON TV...WHY KILL HIM,HE DID NOT HAVE ANY WEAPONS,SO WHY NOT JUST ARREST HIM

I think this is a beginning of something great, something scary. Obviously those policemen were instructed to attack that gentleman. It is so scary to think that we have people who can protect us but at the same time we have killers. Our beloved general should be appalled by this but it is understandable if no one from the police head office comments. Ordinary people are just useless "dogs" in the eyes of the police. How can you shoot and beat someone to death if you claim to be there to protect powerless people?

I saw this incident on SABC news it was really heart breaking to see police officers behaving like those of the Mugabes. It looks like Cele's version of shoot to kill even applies to the innocent people who are not carrying guns or any other objects that can be harmful. May sih soul rest in peace but as for guys like Shosholoza, your comments are disgusting, Baba, sometimes you forget gore you are a human being and these things happens everywhere. One day it will be you or somebody you know.

it's because the people don't have respect for a police man police women any more that is why what happened just happened.

a man has lost his life and insensitive vultures find it a good opportunity to campaign for the DA! This is shameful!

I once read a very true T-shirt in the US...it said "Civil disobedience is still disobedience". I feel for the dead guy, and his family, but did any of you see him relent in his attack on SIX cops? Was he in his right mind? Was he part of a PEACEFUL protest? I'm deeply saddened that it had to go that far, yet SA citizens constantly complain that the police aren't doing their jobs. Well, stopping violent protesters in their tracks is part of their job. If you understand nothing but violence, and try settle your disputes with violence, then violence will be used against you. So sad, so very sad.

Anonymous....i guess racism will never die while we still have people who think like and Malema...

Cedric. You and Juan really tickle me. Are you blind or what? The unfortunate victim did NOT have any sticks or stones.It was the six policemen that openly had the sticks and guns that eventually overpowered him after a brutal beating. In my opinion it is callous of you and Juan to intimmate that he should not have protested just before an election, along with 4000 other protesters because of a lack of broken promises over corruption and a lack of delivery within their area. One wonders whose side you and Juan would support in the Libyan conflict? Are you also saying that Zimbabweans should not protest against Mugabe and ZANUPF?

i'm dead sure not even a white person would condone that violence on a black person.since the malemas has that attitude.i'm sure the whole nation were shocked in seeing that.lets not even forget the ex worker of aurora mines,who committed suicide 'cause he felt he failed his family, but that fat oiled ass dont care about them.who's his partner is jz a silent partner.remember when the babies are born out of wedlock then we know what jz was up to.the people who get paid must be dealt with not the crying people 'cause those guys get paid huge salaries for doing zero.that people has reached a dead end.

Why this reckless hate? Why are those SAPS thugs not behind bars who carried out the assault on an already seriously injured man? Sureli,this cannot just blow over!!?