Police search house without search warrant

KwaThema – Phumlani Khumalo’s house was left in shambles after police raided without a search warrant, he claims.

“I was standing outside the gate with some of my clients when a police van stopped close to us,” explains the traditional healer.

Khumalo says the four uniformed police then asked the men to stand with their hands on top of the parked car and started patting them down.

“They asked us who lived at the house and I replied that it was me.

Two of the officers walked into the yard leaving the rest of us outside.”

He says that after a little while the other two policemen walked with him into the house.

“This is when I realised that they kicked down the front door which was locked.”

Khumalo says that inside the house two other doors, which were also locked, were barely hanging on the hinges.

“They just told me they had information and started asking me questions about my roommates as they continued searching.”

He believes that they did not find anything incriminating because they left empty-handed.

“When Khayelihle came home, on the same day, we went to KwaThema police station to lay a complaint against the police.”

Khayelihle Ndima says no one from the police has come to the house to assess the damage.

“I can’t sleep in a house with no doors.

I was shot in this very house in February last year.”

He says he fears for his life because he does not understand the actions of the police.

“It feels like they are against me because even then the man that shot me was never caught.”

Capt Thabo Sibuyi, spokesperson of KwaThema SAPS, says the matter is under investigation and will be concluded soon.