Warrant Officer Lindela Mraqisa was among five people killed in a mass shooting in Gugulethu on Saturday evening. He was one of Deputy Police Minister Cassel Mathale's bodyguards.
Police Minister Bheki Cele visited the bereaved families of two off-duty police officers who were shot and killed over the weekend.The officers were shot and killed in Cape Town over the weekend. Police Minister Bheki Cele and national police commissioner Fannie Masemola visited the families of two Cape Town police officers who were killed at the weekend.
The police's top brass visited the families of Warrant Officer Lindela Mraqisa and 29-year-old Constable Asavela Mathe, who was attached to the Samora Machel police station.Cops targeted for 'doing their work' – Police Minister Bheki Cele Police bosses also met with the investigating teams to get first-hand information about the crimes.
Cele told the media, after visiting the bereaved families, that police had been working around the clock to track down the people involved in Mraqisa's murder. "Mraqisa was working as a protector for the deputy minister. We have a 29-year-old young lady who died in a nasty way. She was staying in the Barracks, and the circumstances of her death are mischief [sic] and sounds painful. We are glad one person has been arrested in connection with her murder," he said."The family has been unable to identify the body because they don't have his ID. A lot will have to be done first because he did not die in a natural way," he said.
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