Kokstad residents impose night curfew on children after two killings

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Image Credits : SA Police SABC News 18 September 2026, 20:42 [SAST] Community leaders and residents of an informal settlement at Kokstad, in the south of KwaZulu-Natal, have decided that children should not go out at night after two people from the Marikana informal settlement were killed in February and August. Image Credits : Reuters Reuters 19 September 2026, 09:32 [SAST] Authorities imposed an overnight curfew ​in Nigeria’s central city of Minna on Friday after security forces opened fire as hundreds of people took to the streets to ‌protest against the deaths of 37 detainees in the custody of a paramilitary force.

Skip to content Menu Home | Curfew imposed in Nigerian city after miners’ deaths Family members of illegal mining suspects arrested in mining raids who reportedly died while in detention gather at Minna General Hospital in Minna, Niger State. Community leaders have decided that children should not go out alone after 6 in the evening. Residents themselves have decided that no one should go out alone after 7 in the evening. They are panicking, and they are afraid to take children to school, and we must monitor and make sure that we count hours.

The victims many of whom were children were found dead on Thursday in the cells of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), which had raided suspected illegal gold mines and locked up dozens of miners in the city, the capital of Niger State.

The wider picture

But anger over the incident led to ​clashes overnight and into Friday. As the start of curfew approached at 6 p. m. (1700 GMT), security forces had restored order to the streets ⁠of Minna. Niger State Governor Umar Bago said many of the dead were children, aged 14 to 18, who had been working in the mines instead of going to school. “There are issues of illegal mining, and it is taking a toll on our children,” ​he said.

Seven-year-old Lathitha Mtolo disappeared while playing with friends after school at the end of February. Her skeletal remains were found the following month. About a month ago, 27-year-old Okuhle Nkosiyaphansi was killed. “There is a lot of frustration in our communities.

What has been reported

The community has taken a decision that no one must send a child to the shop after 6 pm, and any parent who is doing that must be attended to, and we don’t know what is happening,” says Mavuka. The family of 7-year-old Lathitha Mtolo is still struggling to come to terms with the girl’s death. Her aunt, Sisipho Nto, says a suspect was arrested, but the charges were later dropped due to a lack of evidence.

“On the 26th of February, Lathitha went missing. She came home from school, and we made food for her, and she went to play with her friends. We started to search for her, but we didn’t find her. In March, the police found her skull and the clothes she was wearing, and the DNA came back confirming that it was Lathitha’s body,” says Nto. MOST READ PSC’s Somadoda Fikeni to take the stand at Madlanga Commission 7.

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