Shallcross suspected drug kingpin Yaganathan Pillay has been laid to rest.
Community members came out in their numbers to pay their last respects.
Teddy Mafia's funeral is nothing short of opulence and extravagance. The community is all out paying their respects. Thugs are always revered and looked up to in communities, I thought this only happened in the locations amongst Black People.
I think I saw that animal that chopped off 2 people heads with an axe in broad daylight and on camera walking about at the funeral. #TeddyMafiapic.twitter.com/NGtpnc8D4I
Law enforcement officials were deployed to monitor proceedings, a move which raised the ire of some South Africans.
Money will always be power and the driving force to the SA justice system, in the cost of its people. What good justice system lets a man they found with drugs worth R5 Million go free. Even this funeral shows #TeddyMafia had all the badge boys on payroll. SAPS is a joke.
it's very disturbing how the gov't encourage gangsterism by sending police to these funerals ,Also the media are enablers of gangsterism for covering and giving these funerals airtime, unbelievable that they're airing this #TeddyMafia funeral, very strange and bizarre
Calm has returned to Shallcross in Durban, where residents had run-ins with police officers on Monday.
Community members discharged firearms upon seeing police who had responded to a mob justice incident in the area.
Police called for reinforcement and dispersed the crowd successfully.
Residents had apparently apprehended two men suspected of having killed alleged drug lord, Yaganathan Pillay.
Pillay, who was affectionately known as Teddy Mafia, was gunned down at his home a few minutes after the two men allegedly arrived for a meeting.
He had alerted his daughter, who was with him at the house, about the visit.
According to the police, she heard gun shots a few minutes after the arrival of the guests and when she went to check what had happened – her father was on the floor.
Pillay was rushed to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
After catching wind of the incident – community members accosted the alleged shooters. They were assaulted, shot at, beheaded and then burnt.
Durban Metro Police Spokesperson, Senior Superintendent Parboo Sewpersad, says the two victims are yet to be identified. Police are monitoring the situation and are investigating three cases of murder.
No one has been arrested for the fire-exchange between police and community members.
Zikalala weighs in
KwaZulu-Natal Premier, Sihle Zikalala, has condemned Pillay’s killing and that of the two men suspected of his death.
During a television interview on Tuesday, he urged community members to refrain from taking the law into their own hands.
Zikalala says drugs are an increasing problem and they are working activating a focused approach as parts of efforts to eradicate the scourge in the province.
