Four sentenced for hit on senior Alfred Duma official
Four people have been jailed for life for the murder of a civil engineer in Ladysmith.
Oscar Hlatshwayo was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2019.
He was the Executive Director in the Engineering and Infrastructure Services Department at the Alfred Duma Local Municipality.
The Political Killings Task Team investigated the killing and made arrests that same year.
National police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe says one of the accused, Nomaswazi Shabalala, who was also a senior engineer at the municipality, is believed to have ordered the hit.
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"The second accused, Mondli Mabaso is a businessman linked to tenders at the municipality. The third accused, Mduduzi Njuza’s role was to coordinate and organise the firearms used in the commission of the crime and the fourth accused, Brown Ngcobo was the shooter also known as the hitman.
"The National Commissioner of the SAPS, General Fannie Masemola has welcomed the life imprisonment sentence for each accused and says he hopes the convictions will provide the necessary closure to the family of the murdered Civil Engineer."
The four accused were convicted and sentenced in the Madadeni High Court on Wednesday.
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