Roughly two months after the fatal shooting of city official Wendy Klopper at a Delft housing construction site, police have confirmed that another official was wounded during an incident in Gugulethu last week.
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While a reward of R1 million has been offered for information leading to the arrest of Kloppers’ killer, no arrests have been made, and police are now investigating two separate incidents involving the shooting of city officials.
This comes after a senior superintendent of the City’s electricity generation and distribution department was shot while on the way home from work at its Gugulethu Depot on Friday, 17 March.
According to police spokesperson, Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi, SAPS detectives were working hard on Kloppers’ case.
Kloppers (48), who worked as an official in the City Environmental Affairs Department, was sitting in her BMW with a colleague at the entrance of the housing site in N2 Gateway when she was confronted by gunmen on foot.
She died on the scene while her colleague was wounded.
The assailants then fled the scene in a getaway vehicle.
‘The investigating officer is pursuing all available leads in a bid to ensure an arrest. Anyone with information that can assist with the investigation is kindly requested to call Crime Stop on 08600 10111.’
Subsequently, a reward of R100 000 was offered and later upped to R1 million courtesy of the involvement of a private donor.
‘We absolutely condemn these acts and are committed to putting an end to this shameful criminality,’ said the City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee member for energy, Beverley van Reenen, earlier this week. ‘Cape Town cannot be a city where the lives of the very officials who are providing essential services to its residents are at risk. We will always do our utmost to provide services but not at the expense of our service delivery teams.’
‘In addition, criminality of any sort has a direct impact on law-abiding customers who might suffer supply loss as a result. These illegal actions directly impact service delivery to residents, and help is needed from residents across Cape Town to stop the scourge.’
‘We appeal to residents to assist us by reporting any suspicious activities to both the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the City. We simply cannot tolerate these acts.’
The City has also offered an additional reward of R5000.
‘The City is offering a reward to anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest, confiscation of stolen or illegal goods or the handing in of illegal or stolen goods.’
‘This reward is also applicable to information leading to the arrest of people vandalising, damaging or stealing electricity infrastructure or installing illegal connections. SAPS is the lead authority in crime prevention.’
Anonymous tip-offs are welcome: Residents can report crime and by-law offences anonymously, 24-hours a day, on 0800 1100 77.
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Picture: Wendy Hendricks Kloppers / Facebook
