The families and colleagues of the five Ngcobo policemen who were shot dead in cold blood in 2018 in an attack on their police station have reacted with shock to the news that one of their killers, Siphesihle Tatsi, was jailed for an effective 18 years rather than getting life imprisonment.
At least four men believed to be involved in a number of brazen cash-in-transit heists in the Mthatha CBD have been shot dead in separate incidents this month. Some are believed to have been kidnapped before being killed as their bodies were found about 150km from where they lived.
Despite spending nearly R40m over the past three years to ensure a steady supply of clean drinking water for Mthatha and surrounds, OR Tambo district municipality bosses have warned residents to brace themselves for more water cuts.
The Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service in the Eastern Cape, Lieutenant General Nomthetheleli Mene ordered the activation of a 72-hour mobilisation plan to trace and apprehend suspects who are responsible for the murder of two people whose bodies were found in an open space between Sidwadwa View and Zimbane Valley in Mthatha