KZN cops battle to find New Year's Eve shooter

CRIME & COURTS / 8 January 2017, 3:34pm
SIPHELELE BUTHELEZI
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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