SA soldier demands bribe, then shoots border jumper

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By Staff Reporter

A SOUTH African soldier was being quizzed on Friday after shooting a Zimbabwean border jumper who failed to raise a bribe demanded by the soldier.

The man had crossed the Limpopo River from Zimbabwe on Thursday night, South Africa's News24 reported.

Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the 30-year-old soldier was arrested on a charge of attempted murder after he and a colleague confronted two river crossers and allegedly attempted to extort a bribe.

The soldier apparently wanted R100 from the men who only had R50.

He then allegedly shot the man in the back while he was lying on the ground.

The soldier was later arrested and the wounded man taken to the Musina hospital.

The incident comes just months after undercover investigators arrested an army captain and four soldiers in Limpopo for apparently systematically ambushing, stripping, and robbing illegal Zimbabwean immigrants.

The soldiers also allegedly raped a number of Zimbabwean women before making them swim the crocodile-infested Limpopo River back to Zimbabwe.
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