Cape Times reports that six police officers were attacked in six days in the Western Cape, while three of them were slain.  This startling statistic has left Hawks head Mthandazo Ntlemeza and provincial police commissioner Khombinkosi Jula “deeply disturbed”.  

Ntlemeza said police attacks remained a priority crime.  Constable Masibonge Mqwada, 33, was shot and killed in Kraaifontein on Saturday.  Constable Thandoxolo Ndiki, 30, was found shot in the upper body in Delft on the same day.  He died later in hospital.  Constable Amanda Ladlokova was shot and killed in Philippi East last Tuesday.  Recent statistics released by the SAPS show police officers are being attacked more in the Western Cape than anywhere else in SA.  This year a total of 714 police officers have been attacked in SA (276 in the Western Cape), while 38 have been killed.  Details of the three officers were wounded in attacks are contained in the report.

• Read this report by Dominic Adriaanse in full at Cape Times
• Read too, Western Cape doubles reward for cop killers, at SABC News
• And also, Polisielede se moorde veroordeel, at Netwerk24 (limited access)

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