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THE REPORTER 22 NOVEMBER 2024 · PAGE 11

JOE GQABI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY VIP Protection Unit cop sentenced
EXEC. MAYOR N.P. MPOSELWA TO HOST THE
IDP MAYORAL OUTREACH PROGRAMMES for fatally shooting man
AT ELUNDINI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY IN TLOKOENG who stabbed him

The Joe Gqabi District Municipality The Executive Mayor will also report on the Written by Sinenhlanhla Masilela, Digital Journalist, IOL
Executive Mayor Nomvuyo Mposelwa will District's performance in the past 2023/24
host her Mayoral IDP Outreach programme financial year. The report will reflect on three A 39-year-old police Sergeant has been effectively serve seven years
on Wednesday, 27 November 2024 at the local municipalities, Elundini, Senqu, and in prison,” explained
Roman Catholic Church, Tlokoeng in Walter Sisulu Local Municipality. sentenced to seven years imprisonment for Shuping.
Elundini Local Municipality. fatally shooting a man who had stabbed him in
It is expected that different government Last month, a 40-year-old
This event will be followed by Senqu LM and departments will provide service on wheels at King William's Town, Eastern Cape. police officer accused of
Walter Sisulu LM Mayoral Outreach events, the venues to residents as part of the mayoral Anthony Zuko Balfour, who was a member of the shooting his ex-girlfriend
to be confirmed soon. outreach programme. seven times was been
VIP Protection Unit, was sentenced by the King
The purpose of the Mayoral IDP Outreach is The Joe Gqabi District Municipality received denied bail by the Mank-
to outline the district municipality's service a clean audit as per Auditor General Opinion William's Town Magistrate's Court for killing Anathi weng Magistrates Court in
delivery plans, which are part of the 2024/25 report for the 6th consecutive year. The Qabisisa in May 2017. Limpopo.
financial year, inform stakeholders and District Municipality has been declared as Sergeant Alfred Malemela
communities about projects on the pipeline the best performing Municipality in the entire Po l i c e I n v e s t i g a t i v e “The incident was reported allegedly shot his ex-
and those that on the implementation stage Eastern Cape Province. Directorate (IPID) spokes- to IPID for investigation, and girlfriend, Victoria Rama-
and engage residents looking at person, Phaladi Shuping, the docket was handed to phoko, 38, on September
programmes or projects which can be For media Enquiries contact: Mochekoane said Balfour shot and killed the senior prosecutor after 27, 2024.
prioritised for the next fiscal (2025/26 Lekorotsoana Comm & Marketing – Cell: Qabisisa after he stabbed the finalisation of the The shooting took place
financial year). 072 314 1496 him in the left arm, face and investigation. The senior o u t s i d e M a n k w e n g
head. prosecutor decided that Magistrates Court after a
Sergeant Balfour should be
“Sergeant Balfour then went Heritage Day celebration.
to his car, took out his prosecuted for Qabisisa’s Malemela is also stationed at
firearm and started firing at murder,” he said. Mankweng Police Station.
Qabisisa. Qabisisa tried to The court found Balfour Shuping said Malemela went
run but he fell and Sergeant guilty of murder and to the Magistrates Court in
approached Qabisisa and sentenced him to 15 years the morning where Rama-
shot him on the neck while imprisonment. phoko and her colleagues
he was lying down and no “Eight years of his sentence were celebrating Heritage
longer posing any threat,” was suspended for a period Day.
said Shuping. of five years. He will
“There was an argument
between Sergeant Malemela
and Ramaphoko but he left
the court building. He came
back later in the afternoon
armed with a firearm and
met Ramaphoko at the gate
and allegedly shot her seven
times,” said Shuping.
Ramaphoko was rushed to
hospital and survived the
shooting.
Malemela will appear again
in court on December 12,
2024.
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