News24 reports that the City of Cape Town is offering an R100,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and prosecution of those who targeted police officials and municipality workers.

The reward was offered after two off-duty police constables were shot at traffic lights in Khayelitsha on Friday while travelling in a marked vehicle. In other incidents, City staff members and vehicles were targeted recently when taxi-related violence in Nyanga and surrounding areas reached boiling point on Friday. Seven people were arrested in connection with the violence. City mayoral committee member for safety and security JP Smith, said authorities were aware of claims that people in the taxi industry were collecting funds to hire "hitmen" to target police officers and other law enforcement services employees. Meantime, police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk said a 72-hour activation plan had been put in place to ensure the arrest of the gunmen who attacked the police constables, aged 29 and 30, on Friday night. "The two [officers] stopped at the traffic lights in the marked vehicle and were shot at. They are both being treated for injuries in hospital," Van Wyk indicated.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisalee Solomons at News24
• Lees ook, Twee Kaapse polisiebeamptes geskiet, by Maroela Media

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