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News24 reports that two men appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Tuesday for the murder of City of Cape Town official Wendy Kloppers and the attempted murder of a second person, who were both shot in Kloppers’ car.
The tragedy is allegedly linked to businessman Ralph Stanfield. The court heard that Warren-Lee Dennis and Imtiyaz Sedick would become accused nine and ten in the expanding case against Stanfield, his wife, Nicole Johnson, and eight other persons arrested so far. Forty-eight-year-old Kloppers was murdered in her car, and a colleague was shot in the arm, when shooters attacked them as they were parked outside the Symphony Way housing development in Delft on 16 February 2023. At the time, the perpetrators were suspected to have been part of a construction mafia targeting the City’s construction projects. Speaking outside the court, Western Cape police commissioner Brigadier Thembisile Patekile said police were "eating the elephant" in a huge case they were building against alleged extortionists and associated gunmen in the city. The City, which had offered a R1m reward via a sponsor for information leading to the arrests, welcomed the latest arrests, specifically for the Kloppers murder. Human Settlements MMC Carl Pophaim said: "We have taken a very strong stance, that absolutely everyone and anyone who is involved [in] and is allowing this activity to take place in our government, will be fired, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and Mayor [Geordin] Hill-Lewis has shown that."
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jenni Evans at News24
- Lees ook, Man in hof ná moord op stadswerker, by Maroela Media
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