{"id":309,"date":"2025-12-24T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:10:02","slug":"police-arrest-11-following-bekkersdal-horror-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/police-arrest-11-following-bekkersdal-horror-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 11 following Bekkersdal horror killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Motive remains unclear, although those held by police are linked to illegal mining activities <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p>By Gizem Nisa Demir (Anadulo Agency) and ONN correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eleven people have been arrested in connection with this week&#8217;s fatal shooting in Bekkersdal which saw ten killed and ten others injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, unknown assailants opened fire randomly inside the Kwanoxolo Tavern and continued the shooting spree into the surrounding streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the motive for the shooting remains unknown, Gauteng police confirmed that the latest arrests took place at a residence believed to be harbouring illegal miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting Provincial Police Commissioner Fred Kekana provided an update at the Westonaria Police Station earlier on Wednesday, noting that the operation yielded significant evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>He says the suspects were found with multiple firearms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine of those arrested are Lesotho nationals, one is from Mozambique and 11th is a South African citizen who is alleged to have harboured those arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been a spate of mass shootings in South Africa over the past few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the most recent of attacks, twelve people, including a a three-year-old, were killed on December 6, following an attack on a hostel in Saulsville township, west of Pretoria. Fourteen others were wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Motive remains unclear, although those held by police are linked to illegal mining activities<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}