Jazzman delivers classic performance
Police urged to find Omar nephew’s killers
A GRIEVING family has called for the swift arrest of the shooters ANC stalwart Dullah Omar’s nephew Shaheed.
The family of the 44-yearold father-of-one is reeling from his killing on Thursday night.
Shaheed was gunned down in his car on the corner of Govan Mbeki Road and Jan Smuts Drive near Ottery in Cape Town. He had been with his 74-year-old mother, Zubaida Omar.
His aunt, Dullah’s younger sister, Miriam Omar, said: “Shaheed was a kind, generous person who would have never hurt anyone and loved helping others.
“We are all devastated. It was unexpected and very traumatic for his mother, who was with him in the car and watched her only son get shot like that.
“They had been coming from Grassy Park, where his mother’s brother lives. He had taken her there to visit him because he is not well.”
Another relative, who asked not to be identified, said speculation onthe motive for the murder should not overshadow the need for those responsible to be brought to book.
Questions around the timing of the murder have arisen after the family publicly asked the ANC to distance the name of Dullah Omar from the region in the Western Cape.
“We know there have been a lot of questions around the motive for this killing, but Umlazi fusion jazz musician Linda Sikhakhane delivered a well-received performance at a jazz and visual art session at the Durban Art Gallery on Friday night. He is off to study for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz degree at the New School University in New York next month. Left is Sikhakhane with his band and his Clairwood Boys’ Primary School teacher, Vinisha Rajmoney. we do not want a frenzy of speculation even though we are asking ourselves a lot of questions,” he said.
“What needs to happen now is that we need to allow the police time and space to investigate, but we are pleading with them not to let this be another crime that goes unsolved with no one being arrested.”
Police spokesperson, Captain FC van Wyk, said no arrests have been made and investigations were continuing.