Police in Mpumalanga are yet to locate the driver of a vehicle involved in the collision that killed provincial Community Safety spokesperson, Joseph Mabuza on Sunday.
Mabuza was riding his motorcycle on the N4 toll road at Hectorspruit, east of Malelane , when a car made a sudden U-turn and collided with him. Mabuza was fatally injured. The driver of the other vehicle ran away from the scene.
Police are still trying to trace him and have asked the community for assistance.
Provincial police spokesperson Leonard Hlathi is optimistic that the suspect will be arrested.
“We have not yet located the person who was driving the vehicle on the day of the accident we still making a call to the community members to assists us so that we can be able to trace or track down the man. So we therefore saying to community members they must continue to help us we still have constable Vusimuzi Thobela to be contacted at 072 1968225.”
South Africa is also mourning the passing of another provincial official – Khabisi Mosunkutu. The African National Congress in Gauteng says the late former senior party official will be remembered as a trade-unionist who played a key role in ensuring that workers were not only united but were at the fore-front of dislodging the repressive apartheid regime.
Mosunkuthu passed away on Christmas Eve at the age of 69.
He had not been well after he suffered a stroke. Mosunkutu resigned from the provincial legislature in 2011 after more than a decade as a member of the executive in various portfolios.
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