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Original Post Date: 2007-10-03 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Henri du Plessis, Andisiwe Makinana and Nieham Davids
A policewoman who nipped out to get dinner from a busy take-away shop was shot dead just 200 metres from the Gugulethu police station.
The 32-year-old constable, who was in uniform, was shot in full view of customers on Monday night.
Police said the constable was the ninth police official to be killed in the Western Cape while on duty since January 2006.
| ‘Everyone sort of knows the other, but not this time’ |
Police said the constable, accompanied by a colleague in plainclothes, had been approached by two men.
A single shot was fired, hitting the policewoman in the head.
The men snatched her service pistol from the holster on her waist and fled on foot.
The constable died at the scene. Her colleague had not been injured, police said.
The constable’s name had not been released at the time of going to press.
A large-scale manhunt for the suspects has been launched and top investigators are combing the NY1 area for clues.
Shocked staff and officers at the Gugulethu station refused to speak to journalists on Tuesday, referring them to the police media centre.
Although police said there was only one person with the constable, the owner of the fried chicken take-away outlet insisted she had been accompanied by two people.
He said he was confident all three were police officers as he had seen them in uniform before.
“It is very disturbing that you serve people and five minutes later one of them is dead,” he said.
“There were a lot of people inside and outside the shop for someone to be killed like that.
“There are always customers here. There would be a few young men hanging around the shop,” he said.
“Everyone sort of knows the other, but not this time.”
The policewoman had parked her police van near a cellphone kiosk outside the shop.
NY1 residents told the Cape Argus on Tuesday that the killers must have hidden behind the kiosk before the attack.
A trail of blood from the crime scene trickled into a nearby water drain on Tuesday morning.
The residents said they had heard a single gunshot at about 9.15pm on Monday night.
One man said: “We always have tsotsis here who rob people at knife-point, but guns are very unusual.”
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Novela Potelwa, provincial police commissioner Mzwandile Petros said he viewed an attack on police as an attack on the state.
“The killing of any police official is a tragedy and regretted,” he said.
Petros extended his condolences to the policewoman’s family and her colleagues.
Barries Machakela, national spokesperson for the SA Police Union, said it was a “very sad time for all” when police personnel were murdered.
He told the Cape Argus the loss of police officials was unaffordable, “especially in South Africa where we’ve got an extremely high crime rate”.
The murder comes only a day after the SACP held a special ceremony to commemorate the death of 140 police officers countrywide.
In reaction to the commemoration, Cosatu issued a statement on Monday deploring the killings and condemning efforts to undermine support for the police.
“We condemn attempts by criminals to undermine this support and turn public opinion against the police of the new South Africa by portraying them as ‘the enemy’, as if nothing had changed since the days of apartheid when the police were indeed used to oppress the people,” the statement said.