Colleague fatally wounds SANDF corporal

By Kim Saulse
13 November 2009

A 36 year old National Defence Force corporal was shot and killed by a colleague during a training exercise in Oudtshoorn yesterday.

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has expressed her sympathy and that of the SANDF with Corporal Tuis Malitisi’s family and friends.

Members were busy with crowd control training at Kansasvlakte when one of the trainees wounded Malitisi, who had been stationed in Polokwane in Limpopo.

He was declared dead after being rushed to hospital.

An investigation by South African Police and a Board of Inquiry by South African National Defence Force has since been opened.

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