Suspect up for Magaqa killing

One of the men responsible for the murder of Sindiso Magaqa is among 28 suspects arrested for political killings in KwaZulu-Natal, Police Minister Bheki Cele said yesterday.

“As of this morning, a suspect who is linked to the killing of the late ANC Youth League former secretary-general, Mr Sindiso Magaqa, appeared in the uMzimkhulu Regional Court, his matter has been remanded to 23 September 2018 for a formal bail hearing,” said Cele.

“He is not the last one [who will be arrested]. We are still hunting [for] other people.”

In September 2017, the Hawks, announced one of the suspects in Magaqa’s killing, Jabulani Mdunge, 38, was killed in a shootout with police on the N2 after being linked to a cash-in-transit robbery.

Magaqa, a PR councillor at uMhlathuze Local Municipality, was gunned down along with colleagues Nontsikelelo Mafa and Jabu Msiya in the uMzimkhulu area in July 2017. Magaqa died in September due to “complications from multiple gunshot wounds”, while Mafa and Msiya survived.

Of the 28 suspects who had been arrested, 22 were in custody, two were granted bail and four had been released pending further investigations. – ANA