Law enforcement officials had their hands full early on Monday as an armed gang pounced on a cash van just hours after two people, including a municipal employee, were arrested for cash-in-transit heists.
Police Minister Bheki Cele says the boyfriend of OR Tambo District Municipality employee Namhla Mtwa has not been questioned in connection with her murder.
The gunman who killed OR Tambo District municipal employee Namhla Mtwa kept firing shots into her, while her mother screamed in horror, pleading with him to stop.
Police minister Bheki Cele and national police commissioner General Fannie Masemola will visit Mthatha today as pressure mounts to quell national outrage and threats against the man publicly accused of tormenting Namhla Mtwa. Thousands took to the town’s streets on Wednesday and demanded action from law enforcement in bringing Mtwa’s killer to book and stemming the tide of gender-based violence.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions in the Eastern Cape joins today’s multi-stakeholders march that highlights the plight of women in a patriarchal society manifesting itself as Gender Based Violence. Incidents of Gender based Violence are on the rise in our province and recently OR Tambo district has become a hot bed of these incidents in that part of the province. Recently, the spotlight has been on the gruesome gunning down of Namhla Mtwa in a hail of bullets. A string of her photos bear testimony to the ordeal she suffered allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend.