Overview
- Two armed men entered a relative’s home in Town Two, Khayelitsha, and fatally shot an off‑duty SAPS sergeant in a mid‑afternoon attack that police time-stamped at about 14:55 on Sunday.
- Lingelethu SAPS opened a murder docket and the Hawks (Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation) have taken over the inquiry, with no public arrest reported so far.
- Hours later on the same day a separate incident on the R300 freeway left a 40‑year‑old sergeant from Bishop Lavis dead after a police transport van crashed and burned, prompting a culpable homicide case by Kuilsrivier SAPS.
- Local reporting has identified the slain Khayelitsha officer as Sergeant Mohlomla but that name comes from press accounts rather than an official SAPS confirmation.
- The two deaths come alongside recent killings of local political figures during a voter‑registration weekend, increasing pressure on police to step up investigations and on authorities to address threats to public servants before November’s local elections.