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Mass shootings show the face of South African murder is changing
Mass shootings show the face of South African murder is changing
On a recent Saturday night, a minibus taxi drew up to a tavern in the gold-mining town of Carletonville west of Johannesburg. Eight men armed with AK-47 rifles alighted from the vehicle before gunning down patrons. Eighteen people died.
"They entered the main entrance of the tavern and started shooting randomly," said Mfuneko Dyosini, adding that two colleagues from the gold mine he works at were killed in the massacre. "They all died on the spot."
Just hours after the September 26 attack another 10 people were shot dead at an…
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