TimesLive reports that the workers of the City of Johannesburg’s waste treatment entity Pickitup are traumatised after five security guards were shot at the company's Goudkoppies landfill site last week.

Four security guards were shot dead and another was wounded but died in hospital. A memorial service was held on Wednesday for one of the guards, Bonginkosi Ngcamu. “The team that he [Ngcamu] was working with are traumatised, but we have arranged counselling for them. You can see when you talk to them every day that the morale is down,” landfill site security risk manager Tommy Sigauke reported. He added that employees were worried and scared as the motive for the killings was unknown. “They are worried because we don’t know who killed them and what is the motive. If you take other employees to the same site they feel traumatised, hence we closed the site and took all the employees to other areas,” Sigauke advised. When he went to the scene on the day of the incident, he found the guards lying on the ground. “It looks like they ambushed them from three or four directions. So the way it was constructed on the scene, it looked like it was well planned,” he noted Pikitup spokesperson Muzi Mkhwanazi said on Wednesday that there had been no new developments and police were still investigating.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Shonisani Tshikalange at TimesLive

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