MAGMOED, Shaun

It was a very sad story. It’s a day that I too, will never forget. I watched my friend, Shaun Magmoed, die. It was heart breaking. I must have cried alone for months. To watch your friend die with who you were at school from primary school to high school is not a good thing. What they did to us ...

It was former railways police lieutenant, Douw Vermeulen, who fired the first shot. He admits that he fired at least seven shots at Shaun Magmoed but deny shooting the boy in the back. He said he shot in self defence when the crowd attacked the police.

Mohammed Shafiek Magmoed broke down as he described his state of mind after he discovered that his 16 year old son, Shaun, had been shot dead by the police.

Shaun Magmoed, Michael Miranda and Jonathan Claasen all die at the scene. Several others are wounded or arrested. This week was an emotional one for the families of the victims and survivors of the Trojan Horse tragedy. 12 years after the incident, they finally told their stories to the nation and ...

... for them are how to forget the fear they experienced during the attack and how to forgive the killers so they can honour the memories of Shaun Magmoed, Jonathan Claasen and Michael Miranda by finally making peace with their ...

But we start in Athlone outside Cape Town with the incident that became known as the Trojan Horse killings. Some 1200 years before the birth of Christ the Greeks waged war against the people of Troy. After ten years of war the Greeks had a brilliant plan, they ordered master carpenter Epeius to ...