MEC for Social Development Mamiki Qabathe, who worked with Makgoe for decades in the provincial government, says she’s still in shock and saddened by his death.The driver Pule Nkopane was injured and taken to hospital.“Many people don’t know that I could have left the Free State, a long time ago.
I was frustrated by a lot of things, I wanted to go and work in the Northern Cape, and I put him as one of the people who must be, my references, when I applied for the job in the Northern Cape, and he said to me, Mamiki I’m going to demotivate you, and I was angry; I couldn’t understand and he said to me, you’re one of the assets in the Free State. We’re not going to afford to lose you, and because of that, I stayed. I never knew that because of that advice, I would be what I am today.