Duncan Alfreds, News24
The man arrested for the murder of Cape Town policeman Sergeant Malose Lebelo appeared in the Simon s Town Magistrate s Court.
Bazolele Hlekiso also faces a charge of illegal possession of a firearm.
Lebelo was shot dead and found outside a shop in Vrygrond near Muizenberg early on Sunday.
The man arrested for the murder of Cape Town policeman Sergeant Malose Lebelo appeared in the Simon s Town Magistrate s Court on Friday.
Bazolele Hlekiso was apprehended on Tuesday and charged on Thursday.
Further information on the fatal shooting was not made available. According to Hawks spokesperson Zinzi Hani, Lebelo was found lying in the street in front of a shop in Disa Street in Vrygrond.
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SAPU reiterates call for police killings to be declared a national disaster This comes as yet another off-duty police officer was shot and killed in Vrygrond, near Muizenberg over the weekend. FILE: SAPS officers line the Grand Parade in Cape Town before an operation in the CBD. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News.
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CAPE TOWN - The South African Policing Union (SAPU) has reiterated calls for police killings to be declared a national disaster.
This comes as yet another off-duty police officer was shot and killed in Vrygrond, near Muizenberg over the weekend.
Sergeant Malose Lebelo was shot several times and his body was found in the early hours of Sunday morning.