Report Clearing Soldiers in South African Man’s Death Sparks Anger | Voice of America

JOHANNESBURG – The legal team representing the family of a South African man allegedly beaten to death by soldiers enforcing COVID-19 lockdown restrictions reacted with outrage to a leaked army report that said they are not liable for his death.

Forty-year-old Collins Khosa died April 10 in this city’s poor township of Alexandra, following an altercation in his yard with security forces. They had accused him of drinking alcohol in public, an offense under emergency regulations put in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Witnesses say soldiers and police officers strangled Khosa,…