KZN cops battle to find New Year's Eve shooter

CRIME & COURTS / 8 January 2017, 3:34pm
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Jacobus Steyl, a forensic ballistic examiner, points to a bullet while discussing projectile velocity as he tries to unravel the mysterious killing of a 12-year-old boy on New Year’s Eve . Picture: NQOBILE MBONAMBI


Durban - The uMlazi boy killed when hit in the head by a stray bullet on New Year’s Eve will be buried on Sunday.

Lindelwa Nyadi’s grieving family now wants answers. They want to know who fired the fatal shot, downing the child as he played with friends.





Private Durban ballistics expert Jacobus Steyl, who is not dealing with this case but regularly works on other crimes, said it would not be easy to get to the bottom of the matter.





Lindelwa’s older sister, Samke, said police were investigating the incident, treating it as a criminal case.





“He was brought home by other kids and we thought he had collapsed. We never heard the gunshot because people were letting off fireworks. We want to know who fired this bullet. They must be punished,” she said.





She described how Lindelwa suddenly fell to the ground and his family only discovered he had been shot when an X-ray showed the bullet in his brain.





Lindelwa, 12, was about to start Grade 7 at Sukuma Primary School.





Steyl said the next step for a ballistics expert was to use physics to work out the direction the bullet came from, at what angle it entered the child's body and at what speed





This would help determine the origin of the shot.





“Take, for example, a 9mm calibre bullet. The weight is 115 grain (7.45g) and the velocity 360m/second.



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“Should this bullet be found lodged in the body during the postmortem, forensic examiners can use it to work back.





“They have to deduct how much the velocity slowed because of skin and bone penetration to determine the remaining velocity. From this they can work out how far away the shooter was when he fired.





“We also look at the location of the wound. By analysing its outer appearance and the underlying bone, one can determine if the bullet impacted the body at an angle or if it was perpendicular.





“The location of the bullet in the body in relation to the entrance wound can help in determining the angle of its path.”





The next step was to see how deeply the bullet penetrated.





“Let’s say the bullet penetrated the skin and skull and was retrieved in the brain. That implies the bullet only had sufficient energy to penetrate skin and bone.





“To determine the distance this bullet travelled, the examiner has to deduct skin and bone penetration velocity from the muzzle velocity.





“The bullet can be analysed to determine the calibre and any defects which could indicate that it impacted a surface before the death.





“Once we know the calibre, rifling grooves and direction, we can determine the most probable type of firearm used. Those are the basic aspects,” said Steyl.

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Sunday Tribune

PICS: Risking their lives just to survive

CRIME & COURTS / 8 January 2017, 3:42pm
Staff Reporter

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A miner makes his way into a shaft to start his shift at an illegal coal mine in Indwe, Eastern Cape. Photo: Cindy Waxa/Independent Media

Dicks Hlekiso takes a nap before he starts his shift digging for coal in the illegal mine. Photo: Cindy Waxa/Independent Media














Johannesburg - The prospect of a horrible death does not deter them. They have to eat. Their families have to eat.

So, day in and day out, Indwe villagers in Eastern Cape re-open disused coal shafts at a mine to eke out an income so they can provide for their families.





The risk to life is high as the old coal mine can collapse at any moment. But their desperation is even greater.


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Indwe is a small town between Dordrecht and Elliot.





The mine belonged to white owners during the apartheid era and closed decades ago. However, due to rampant unemployment, residents of Indwe have taken it upon themselves to re-open the mine, in the mountain just above the town. They’ve renamed it “Emigodini” (Mines).





To unlock the mine’s treasure, these desperate prospectors use pickaxes and spades as excavation tools.





The mine is dotted with caves opening up to deep, dark and narrow tunnels.





The danger is that deep cracks line tunnel walls; a reminder of the fragility of the miners’ undertaking.





The miners use candles to light the way. Our sister newspaper the Weekend Argus gets a guided tour. To move, you need to crawl - your head millimetres from scraping against the rock canopy. Flimsy wooden pillars support the walls to prevent it caving in.





The only sounds are the monotonous thud of pickaxes and the grinding of wheelbarrows. The coal is sold to people making bricks and clay pots.





Back above ground, we speak to miner Dicks Hlekiso, 48, from Mavuya township at Indwe, who is partially deaf.





He has been working in the mine for 10 years. He has three children to support.





“It is the only job I could find to support my family. Nobody wants to employ me because of my disability.”





Dicks earns R80 for 15 wheelbarrows of coal.





Vuyani Tyilana, 57, is one of the first “prospectors”. He started working at the illegal mine after he lost a job as a mineworker in Johannesburg.





When they started out, they called this business “Vukuzenzele” (wake up and do something for yourself).





He said even though there are no safety measures, miners can avoid the dangers by taking precautions.





Since the Weekend Argus visited the mine at the end of last year, there have been three deaths reported after a part of the mine caved in.


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The miners said there is nothing they can do - this is the only way they can support their families.





The Sunday Independent

The White House tycoon: Trump’s conflicts of interest

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hington - He is the head of a business empire and now he’s America’s next president. By combining these two roles, billionaire Donald Trump could face conflicts of interest of an scale unprecedented in US political history.

The Republican elected to the White House on Tuesday made his fortune by building a network of hotels, office towers and luxury apartment buildings as the head of the Trump Organisation.

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His real estate empire is primarily located in the United States, but also extends to countries such as South Korea and Turkey. Managing political relations with such US allies while president risks creating a curious mix of competing goals.

The Trump Organisation is not publicly traded, so many of its activities are closed to scrutiny. But US media have reported it has financial ties with people close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump raised Putin during his campaign.


“For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia,” Trump tweeted in July.


The potential for conflicts of interest from Trump's business activities are not limited to countries like Russia. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump has received $2.5 billion in loans from Deutsche Bank since 1998.

But US regulators are currently in negotiations with the German bank over imposing a possibly multi-billion-dollar fine for its role in the 2008 financial crisis. This raises questions about how the Trump administration will react if it inherits the case, and whether the new president's business interests will be considered.
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‘Unprecedented’

Accusations of conflicts of interest are not new in US politics. They tainted the administration of president George W. Bush, whose vice-president Dick Cheney, until his appointment in 2000, headed the Halliburton oil services and logistics company, which went on to win lucrative contracts in Iraq after the US invasion.

But the problem takes on another dimension with Trump, whose name is inextricably tied to his business empire.

“It's unprecedented in the history of the US in part because we don't know the scope or the nature of his many financial ties in particular,” Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St Louis, told AFP.

She said one ethical point of particular concern is that Trump financed his company's expansion through debt.

“We don't know to whom he owes money. In some ways owing money is a much more significant financial contact than an investment,” she said.

Trump so far has not spoken much about his potential conflicts of interest. Possibly because few imagined he would end up in the Oval Office, but also perhaps because US laws on the issue are flexible when it comes to the president.

Under current law, while non-elected members of the US administration face stringent constraints on their business activities, those rules do not apply to the president or vice-president.

Although the US Constitution prohibits any politician from accepting any “fee” from a foreign power, there is no prohibition on doing business with private partners abroad.

Trump had pledged during the campaign to entrust his business to a blind trust which would wall him off from any say in the company's activities.

But the tycoon added that this would put the company under the control of three of his children who already are executive vice-presidents of the Trump Organisation.

Is that really enough to separate a President Trump away from his business empire?

“We're not going to discuss those things... Trust me. As you know, it's a very full-time job. He doesn't need to worry about the business,” son Donald Trump Junior said in September of his father's becoming US president.

Another world leader used the same strategy. After his first election in 1994 as head of the Italian government, Silvio Berlusconi entrusted the management of his media empire to his family. But that did not prevent persistent criticisms over conflict of interest.

Pound benefits as world digests Trump’s win

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- Investors’ concern about political shifts is benefiting the pound.

Sterling has climbed against all of its 31 major peers since lasts Friday. It’s the surprise winner during the week of Donald Trump’s electoral upset in the US that threw markets into turmoil as traders re-appraised populist movements.



Traders reduced their short bets against the pound as they wait for a Supreme Court hearing scheduled for December 5-8 that potentially may delay Britain’s exit from the European Union.

The UK currency headed for its best week against the euro since July 2015 as investors tried to assess how the rise of populism may affect the euro, with several countries in the region facing votes in the coming months, and how trade flows may shift if Trump were to move ahead with protectionist policies.
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“There is just a bigger theme now and we just don’t have a trigger for more pound downside here,” said Manuel Oliveri, a currency strategist at Credit Agricole SA’s corporate- and investment-banking unit in London. “Hard-Brexit fears were falling already, and you have a market that is positioned one-sided. When there’s no more impulse, these positions get taken off at some point.”


Sterling climbed 0.2 percent to $1.2584 as of 8.33am in London, and was headed for its second week of gains versus the greenback. It strengthened 0.3 percent to 86.51 pence per euro, set for a 2.9 percent increase against the single currency in the week.
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Short-pound positions, or bets that the currency will fall, started to recede this month, after reaching a record-high level in October, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission data from the week ended November 1.

The pound completed its best week against the dollar since 2009 on November 4, amid speculation Brexit will be delayed or watered down after a court ruled the government can’t start the process of leaving the EU without a vote from lawmakers