Doreen Mokgolo
Sitting on the mattress, the grieving Sibongile Duma said she had feared for her husband’s life.
She’d even been encouraging him to leave the taxi business.
“But Emmanuel wouldn’t hear of it because that was the only business he knew,” she said.
On Tuesday evening her fears turned into a reality when her husband was shot and killed outside his home in Duduza, Ekurhuleni.
Emmanuel’s colleagues at the Nigel Taxi Association said he was standing outside with two friends on the pavement when a man dressed in a blue overall approached them. The man pulled out a gun and shot Emmanuel five times in the head and ran away.
Only Emmanuel was injured during the shooting.
Sibongile said she was in the house when she heard the shots but she thought it was the children playing with fireworks.
“A few moments later I heard small children calling for me shouting that BabaDuma had collapsed outside,” she said.
“I ran out to see what was wrong and found the residents standing around him. He was lying dead in a pool of blood,” she said.
“Now his five-year-old son is without a father.”
She said her husband was naturally a quiet man who never discussed business with her.
Duduza police spokesperson Sergeant Harry Manaka said the suspect is yet to be arrested.
Police are calling on anyone with information about the identity or information about the man that could help the police to please come forward.
