WHEN the wife of Johan Holme Ndlovu - ANC chief whip in the Ehlanzeni district municipality in Mpumalanga - became worried because her husband had not returned home by the early hours of yesterday morning, she called him on his cellphone.
To Gift Ndlovu's surprise, a stranger answered her husband's phone. She dropped the call, thinking she had dialled the wrong number.
The woman suddenly received a call from the stranger, who said: "We have shot your husband. If you go to the bush at Lephong village, you will find him still alive."
She alerted the family and police, who started searching for Ndlovu from 1am to 5am, when they found his body with bullet wounds to the upper body.
Mpumalanga police spokesperson Captain Leonard Hlathi told Sowetan that Ndlovu's body was found alongside the road at Lephong, about 20km east of Thulamahashe, but his white Toyota Corolla, registration BWF 048 MP, was missing.
Ehlanzeni municipality speaker Caswell Maluleke yesterday expressed shock at the murder.
"It is regrettable that this good leader, whom I was very close to due to the nature of our work, had to die in this way," Maluleke said.
He could not say whether the murder was related to politics or not.
"Anything is possible. It can just be another murder and it can also be politically motivated, but I believe it will be fair to leave everything in the hands of police," he said.
Ndlovu's murder on Tuesday showed a striking similarity to the killing of Mbombela municipality speaker Jimmy Mohlala who was shot dead at his home in KaNyamazane near Nelspruit on January 4 last year.
Sammy Mpatlanyane, head of communications in the provincial department of arts, culture and sports, was also shot dead in his house at Stonehenge in the Nelspruit district last yaer.
Ndlovu lived in Hluvukani village, near Manyeleti Game Reserve.
Police are investigating a murder case but no arrests had been made by last night.
While five people, including two policemen, were arrested in connection with Mohlala's murder, no arrests have been effected in the Mpatlanyane case.
We shot your man, ANC widow told
WHEN the wife of Johan Holme Ndlovu - ANC chief whip in the Ehlanzeni district municipality in Mpumalanga - became worried because her husband had not returned home by the early hours of yesterday morning, she called him on his cellphone.
To Gift Ndlovu's surprise, a stranger answered her husband's phone. She dropped the call, thinking she had dialled the wrong number.
The woman suddenly received a call from the stranger, who said: "We have shot your husband. If you go to the bush at Lephong village, you will find him still alive."
She alerted the family and police, who started searching for Ndlovu from 1am to 5am, when they found his body with bullet wounds to the upper body.
Mpumalanga police spokesperson Captain Leonard Hlathi told Sowetan that Ndlovu's body was found alongside the road at Lephong, about 20km east of Thulamahashe, but his white Toyota Corolla, registration BWF 048 MP, was missing.
Ehlanzeni municipality speaker Caswell Maluleke yesterday expressed shock at the murder.
"It is regrettable that this good leader, whom I was very close to due to the nature of our work, had to die in this way," Maluleke said.
He could not say whether the murder was related to politics or not.
"Anything is possible. It can just be another murder and it can also be politically motivated, but I believe it will be fair to leave everything in the hands of police," he said.
Ndlovu's murder on Tuesday showed a striking similarity to the killing of Mbombela municipality speaker Jimmy Mohlala who was shot dead at his home in KaNyamazane near Nelspruit on January 4 last year.
Sammy Mpatlanyane, head of communications in the provincial department of arts, culture and sports, was also shot dead in his house at Stonehenge in the Nelspruit district last yaer.
Ndlovu lived in Hluvukani village, near Manyeleti Game Reserve.
Police are investigating a murder case but no arrests had been made by last night.
While five people, including two policemen, were arrested in connection with Mohlala's murder, no arrests have been effected in the Mpatlanyane case.