Taxi driver, daughter shot dead

A 13-YEAR-OLD boy collapsed into the hands of a neighbour while trying to explain how he had watched his grandfather and cousin being shot in cold blood.

He is now in hospital for shock after telling the family how he watched three men wearing balaclavas kill members of his family.

The boy was in the house with well-known Mahikeng taxi owner Ambros Kegopotse Tawana, 64, watching TV at about 7pm on Friday at their home in Magogoe Tar Road village.

His uncle had just arrived home and was resting on his favourite black reclining leather chair when they heard a knock at the door.

“The boy went and opened the door without suspecting anything.

“He was greeted by three armed men wearing balaclavas, ” said Tawana’s youngest daughter Kate.

“The men told him (the boy) to lie on the floor and also ordered my father to lie on the floor as well.

“The men told my father that they had been looking for him for a very long time.

“They said he (the taxi owner) was giving them problems and now they had found him,” Kate said.

According to Kate, the men then went to the bedroom and fetched her sister Kelebogile, 22.

She too was asked to lie next to her father and the young boy.

“They shot my father twice in his neck and spinal cord, and then directed the gun at my sister. She too was shot in the spinal cord,” Kate said.

A member of the family, Billy Tawana, said there must be more to the killings than meets the eye.

“It looks as if they wanted to kill them both. How did they gain entrance?

“Kelebogile and my uncle were very close. She knew everything that her father was doing.

“I suspect that they wanted to kill whatever information they had,” Billy said.

North West provincial police spokeswoman Major Pelonomi Makau said no arrests have been made.