29-year-old Constable Khotso Malahlela and 45-year-old Sergeant Vusimuzi Batsha were responding to a complaint of unnatural death in the Boksburg area when they were accosted by three men. The officers were waiting for a mortuary van to arrive on the scene, when they were disarmed and killed.
A hymn to comfort the grieving souls, who came to pay tribute to the officers who were brutally murdered. Constable Khotso Malahlela joined the police force three years ago and at 29 years old, his life was taken. His younger sister – an emotional Palesa Malahlela paid a moving tribute. Sergeant Vusimuzi Batsha leaves behind a wife and three children. Batsha family representative Amos Mkhwanazi calls for justice.
Their colleagues were equally shattered. Sergeant Mlindiseni Ngobese from the Boksburg North Police station speaks of the moment that unfolded after the killing.