News24 reports that the City of Cape Town has upped a reward to R1.35 million after the Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LEAP) officer Zamikhaya Kwinana was shot and killed.
Kwinana was laid to rest in the Eastern Cape on Saturday. In a determined bid to find the killers responsible for gunning down the LEAP officer in Nyanga during the taxi violence over a week ago, the City pleaded with the public to be more forthcoming with information. Kwinana, 33, was a passenger in a marked LEAP vehicle driving in Nyanga just after 20h00 on 4 August, when the vehicle came under heavy fire. The City first offered the maximum amount of R250 000, however, according the City's mayoral committee member for safety and security, JP Smith, several benefactors pledged additional amounts to the reward already offered. He said: “This has permitted us to increase the reward to an unprecedented amount not previously possible.” Kwinana's family said they were grateful that the City had taken "decisive" action to find their loved one's killer, even though "it won't bring him back to us".
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisalee Solomons at News24
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