The fuming family of slain OR Tambo District Municipality employee Namhla Mtwa has slated police minister Bheki Cele, saying his latest promise to solve her murder is “a nonsensical political statement to garner votes”.
Mthatha residents have demanded that the police top brass abandon their blue-light convoys and walk the streets of their crime-plagued town.Speaking to police minister Bheki Cele and national police commissioner General Fannie Masemola, who visited the area on Wednesday, they said: “Leave your blue lights, VIP security and walk the streets. Drugs are being sold openly in some streets in town in broad daylight.“Mthatha is no longer safe.”
There was widespread outrage when Namhla Mtwa was shot nine times outside her Mthatha home. April marks a year since the OR Tambo municipal employee was killed.
GBV activist Siyamthanda Ndlela says it's baffling that a year has passed and there still aren’t any answers or arrests in the Namhla Mtwa murder case.