{"id":47610,"date":"2023-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/?guid=85971982f60c50aee3caab416e2b0683"},"modified":"2023-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T00:00:00","slug":"police-launch-manhunt-for-the-murderer-of-a-councillor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timessouthafrica.com\/police-launch-manhunt-for-the-murderer-of-a-councillor\/","title":{"rendered":"Police launch manhunt for the murderer of a Councillor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>DUTYWA &#8211; SAPS Organised Crime unit is investigating a murder case after a Mayoral Committee Member from Mbhashe Municipality was murdered on Friday afternoon, 17 February 2023 at about 13:30 at Sofuthe Locality in Dutywa.<\/P><P><\/P><P>According to the information, the 47-year-old Councillor was parking her car in front of her business where she allegedly went to collect money. Preliminary investigation revealed that as she was busy counting the money inside the car, she was confronted by two unidentified male suspects, one of whom was clad in a Baraclover. They allegedly shot her with a firearm and thereafter escaped in a white Toyota Avanza which was parked a few meters from the crime scene.<\/P><P><\/P><P>It is further alleged that nothing was robbed during the incident. Police have registered a Murder case for investigation. No arrest has been made at this stage. The circumstances surrounding the incident are currently unknown and the police will not make any speculations in this regard.<\/P><P><\/P><P>The Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Nomthetheleli Mene has ordered the detectives to spare no time in ensuring that those involved in this cold-blooded murder are found in order to account for their actions.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Anyone with information regarding this incident, is kindly requested to please make contact with Idutywa Police Station or call the crime stop number 08600 10111.<\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Police Service<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUTYWA &#8211; SAPS Organised Crime unit is investigating a murder case after a Mayoral Committee Member from Mbhashe Municipality was murdered on Friday afternoon, 17 February 2023 at about 13:30 at Sofuthe Locality in Dutywa.According to the information, t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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