TimesLIVE reports that the Gauteng government is worried that other staff members could become victims of targeted hits after the weekend slaying of senior housing official Teboho Makhoa.

The 52-year-old Makhoa was gunned down, with 28 bullets shot into his vehicle in the Spruitview area. On Monday, Gauteng human settlements, urban planning and Cogta MEC Lebogang Maile — along with Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina, other government officials and the SA Police Service — visited Makhoa's home. Maile described Makhoa as an honest employee, which was why he might have been targeted. “We’ve got reason to believe and suspect that some of our staff members might be targeted. This is based on the decisions that we would have made about the allocations of houses, because there are people who have illegally occupied houses. It was us [the politicians] who took a decision that we must evict those people,” Maile pointed out. Noting that police had confirmed that there were syndicates who were responsible for invasions of houses and land, Maile went on to say: “Though they project this as some pro-revolutionary programme of redistributing land and giving our people land and houses, it’s not. It's just pure criminal activity, and that is why we are saddened that today we had to lose one of our hard-working, dedicated and long-serving staff members the way we did.”

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Shonisani Tshikalange at TimesLIVE
• Read too, Kind, committed, honest: Family devastated after Gauteng official killed in hail of bullets, at News24

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