MY HOUSE IS MY PRISON!Witness to killing now lives in fear!

TERRIFIED: This woman can't leave home because
hitmen have threatened to kill her.
By Sammy Moretsi
TEN years ago, Salome’s evidence sent a killer to
jail.
But now her house has become her own dark jail
that she never leaves.
SHE LIVES IN FEAR THAT THE FRIENDS OF THE
CONVICTED MAN WILL COME AND MURDER HER
TOO.
"My house is now my prison,” said Salome
Luvhengo (50)."I haven’t felt the warmth of the sun
in 10 years!”
Salome lives behind the locked door of her five-
roomed house in Meadowlands zone 4, Soweto.
She said she witnessed somebody being shot dead
near her house. She called the cops and the
suspect was caught and received a long jail
sentence.
"But then two men who live in the Dube hostel
came to my house,” she said.
"They asked for a place to rent but then I saw one
of them pulling out a gun and I rushed inside the
house and locked myself in.”
She said she reported the matter to the
Meadowlands police but they just laugh at her.
"They said I made up the story and although I told
them I took the registration number of the car, they
still they ignore me,”
she said.
That’s when she decided to stay inside the house.
While she was talking to Daily Sun, the flashlight of
the camera seemed to hurt Salome’s eyes,
as if the light was too much for her.
She said her friends come to visit and sometimes
bring food.
Her gogos and her brothers also go to the spaza
shop to buy her food.
"Sometime my gogos pick up things like muthi in
the yard.
I think it is placed there by the friends of the
convicted murderer,” she said.
"Life inside the house is just hell. I can’t handle it
any more!”
She said she has a licence to sell booze but is too
scared to open her door.
"Cops want me to die inside the house,” she
said."They promised to patrol but I look through
the window and never see them.
When the SunTeam left the house, she wouldn’t go
outside.
She stood inside the dark doorway of the house
with sad tears flowing down her cheeks.
Gauteng provincial spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel
Lungelo Dlamini said they will investigate the
allegation.