The police ministry has authorised immediate national policing interventions to improve crime detection, investigations and the tracking and tracing of suspects in and around the OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape.
Both AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo and premier Oscar Mabuyane have expressed shock at the recent mass killings in the Eastern Cape. This follows the mass shooting last week of seven family members at Tantseka village, near the king’s Bumbane Great Place in Mthatha. Mabuyane, who described 2022 as the worst year for killings in the province, said he had written to police minister Bheki Cele, calling for national police intervention to deal with this crisis.
Residents of the small village of Tantseka in the Sithebe administrative area, a stone's throw from the Bumbane Great Place, have been left terrified and disbelieving after seven people died in a hail of bullets in one of the rural homes late on Wednesday.