ANA reports that two of the three men accused of killing a North West policeman appeared briefly in the Brits Regional Court on Thursday.  The case was postponed to 17 January.  

The state alleges the trio gunned down Constable Mokotedi at a shopping mall in Bapong south of Brits on 4 November last year.  Mokotedi and other police officers were on a routine patrol in the area when they came upon a gang of armed men, who had robbed a clothing shop at the mall.  The policemen were not aware of the robbery and the gunmen opened fire on them thinking the policemen were after them.  Constable Mokotedi was shot once in the head when he got out of the police van.  He died at the scene.

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