A South African firefighter has been accused of shooting and killing his station commander.
Platoon Commander Lesedi Mphatswe of the Johannesburg Emergency Services Management, was shot and killed at the home of a firefighter as he was delivering a disciplinary summons. Commander Mphatswe was a 20 year veteran.
The disciplinary summons was reportedly related to a strike that occurred in July. The strike was to protest unsafe working conditions that contributed to the deaths of two firefighters, Daniel Zwane, 50, and Michael Letsosa, 34. The men died at a fire in the Nedbank Mall in May.
Eyewitness News EMW.com is quoting a representative of the Johannesburg firefighters, Dan Motsoeneng, as saying of JESM management that “They basically push the firefighters beyond their emotional endurance is over and above what the stress of the job.”