News24 reports that the City of Cape Town has offered a R250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for gunning down a Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LEAP) officer in Nyanga on Friday night.

Zanikhaya Kwinana and two colleagues were driving in a marked Law Enforcement vehicle, on Miller Road en route to Bishop Lavis, when gunman opened fire. Mayoral committee member for safety and security, JP Smith, said initial indications were that as many as 13 bullets had hit the vehicle. Kwinana sustained gunshot wounds to the head and was declared dead on arrival at hospital. The officers had been carrying out patrols amid the ongoing taxi stayaway. Nyanga Community Policing Forum (CPF) chairperson Dumasani Qwebe said they were "shocked and devastated" by the manner in which the officer had been killed. Kwinana is the second LEAP officer to be shot dead in less than a week. On 30 July, Toufeeq Williams was killed while off duty when a stray bullet hit him in the head in Beacon Valley, Mitchells Plain.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisalee Solomons at News24

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