S. African killed for wanting to watch soccer over gospel show.
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Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG -- Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country.
David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought with his wife and two children for the remote control on Sunday because he wanted to watch Germany play Australia in the World Cup. The others, however, wanted to watch a gospel show.
"He said, 'No, I want to watch soccer,'" police spokesman Mothemane Malefo said Thursday. "That is when the argument came about.
"In that argument, they started assaulting him."
Malefo said Makoeya got up to change the channel by hand after being refused the remote control and was attacked by his 68-year-old wife Francina and two children, 36-year-old son Collin and 23-year-old daughter Lebogang.
Malefo said he was not sure what the family used to ? Makoeya.
"It appears they banged his head against the wall," Malefo said. "They phoned the police only after he was badly injured, but by the time the police arrived the man was already dead."
All three were arrested Sunday night, but Lebogang was released on $200 bail Tuesday, Malefo said. The other two are still being held in custody.
Malefo said the mother and son will reappear in the local Seshego Magistrates Court on July 27.
"He was always a happy man, never violent," Makoeya's nieces, Miriam and Anna, told the Daily Sun newspaper. "On Saturday, we saw him the last time at a funeral."
The World Cup, being played in Africa for the first time, started Friday and runs through July 11.
Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press
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JOHANNESBURG -- Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country.
David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought with his wife and two children for the remote control on Sunday because he wanted to watch Germany play Australia in the World Cup. The others, however, wanted to watch a gospel show.
"He said, 'No, I want to watch soccer,'" police spokesman Mothemane Malefo said Thursday. "That is when the argument came about.
"In that argument, they started assaulting him."
Malefo said Makoeya got up to change the channel by hand after being refused the remote control and was attacked by his 68-year-old wife Francina and two children, 36-year-old son Collin and 23-year-old daughter Lebogang.
Malefo said he was not sure what the family used to ? Makoeya.
"It appears they banged his head against the wall," Malefo said. "They phoned the police only after he was badly injured, but by the time the police arrived the man was already dead."
All three were arrested Sunday night, but Lebogang was released on $200 bail Tuesday, Malefo said. The other two are still being held in custody.
Malefo said the mother and son will reappear in the local Seshego Magistrates Court on July 27.
"He was always a happy man, never violent," Makoeya's nieces, Miriam and Anna, told the Daily Sun newspaper. "On Saturday, we saw him the last time at a funeral."
The World Cup, being played in Africa for the first time, started Friday and runs through July 11.
Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/story/_/id/5297052/ce/us/south-african-man-killed-wife-kids-changing-tv-germany-australia-game?cc=5901&ver=us
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His own family?
How barbaric can you become?
So much for being Christians. -
Yeah, they're practicing christianity by the book lol.
PEACE -
no respect at all..
dude cant even watch a soccer game... what a family..
imagine when the Giants start playing... -
The True Flesh wrote: »Yeah, they're practicing christianity by the boo
yeah, nobody gets killed by ? 's followers in the Bible........ -
KTULU IS BACK wrote: »yeah, nobody gets killed by ? 's followers in the Bible........
I read it as him being literal :unno -
colored people don't know how to act. plain and simple.
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Ham&CheeseHotPocket wrote: »colored people don't know how to act. plain and simple.
compared to........? -
Ham&CheeseHotPocket wrote: »colored people don't know how to act. plain and simple.
Would make more sense to say majority of people don't know how to act. Color plays no part. You watch the news? Pretty obvious from there on in -
theillestrator wrote: »Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG -- Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country.
it would appear that killin' innocent people is not only the right thing to do but in fact a fundamental part of religion.. -
If ? says no sports ? damn it that means no sports.
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Ham&CheeseHotPocket wrote: »colored people don't know how to act. plain and simple.
Right, not when the white man has influence on their lives. Christianity is a white religion.
I got enough troll food to feed an entire nation of trolls for 25 years. -
Ham&CheeseHotPocket wrote: »colored people don't know how to act. plain and simple.
this was a white south african family