the photographer who captured the brutal murder of a Mozambique immigrant in South Africa has reacted to the backlash over his decision to take pictures instead of trying to save the victim.
James Oatway witnessed the
stabbing and beating of Emmanuel Sithole by four men in Alexandra town-ship
near Johannesburg on Saturday. Many slammed the journalist of not doing enough
to prevent Mr Sithole's death.Responding to the criticism, Mr Oatway told Radio
702's John Robbie:
'It's not easy to look at
and I understand that some people might be offended by that. 'But really people
have to know what's happening, and people have to see the brutality and the
vulgarity of what's going on. 'I think that people who are angry with me for
taking the pictures... should try and direct their anger at the men that are
responsible for the attack and not at me.'
'The one regret that I have
was that the first clinic that we took him to weren't equipped to treat him. We
did lose some valuable time taking him out of the car there, taking him into
the clinic and then the nurses told us that there's no doctor there.
'They put a gauze dressing
on his wound and then we put him back in the car, but that whole process took
about 10 minutes.'



his report took precedence over the life of any human, heartless
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