
24/06/2025
The Kimberley mother of a 34-year-old man in the Northern Cape who was shot and killed allegedly by a police officer in February last year says she is still waiting for answers from police and Investigative Directorate. IPID. John Smit of Kutlwanong section in Galeshewe was shot during a confrontation between the police and the community at a local tavern. Parliament heard last week that IPID had a backlog of over 15-thousand unresolved cases.
"My child is nowhere here I want something must happen in that case for my son. I don't have money I don't have nothing to get a lawyer for that case that police man must go to jail for my child's death no one not even the cop came the first day that Sunday morning to explain what happened," said Sarah Smith mother of the deceased.