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No arrest in the murder of Mangaung Metro employee four months later


Staff reporter

Bloemfontein – There has been no arrest in the murder of the slain Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality employee, Luzuko Ntlebeza.

Ntlabeza, who was a general manager for Water and Sanitation was gunned down in October 2024, in Mjiba street, Rocklands.

He was not only an employee, he was a husband, a father, a brother, an uncle, and a Grootmane to his friends.

Free State experienced this for the first time in 2005 when Noby Ngombane was gunned down in front of his daughter, Zandile (5 years), she later committed suicide in her teenage years due to the trauma she experienced.

Among the suspects in his murder it was his wife, Nokwanda, his brother-in-law and Papie Mokoena, former Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality.

In an exclusive interview with this publication, Mokoena revealed how an inmate from Goedemoed Prison in Aliwal North implicated him in the murder of Noby and what the high court judge ordered Thabo Mbeki, former president to do but he didn’t.

Mokoena told this publication the inmate alleged he was released from prison for the hit and they met somewhere in Bloemfontein where he gave him money.

According to South African Police Services (SAPS) no arrest has been made yet in the murder of Ntlebeza.

“There was no arrest on the case.”

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Among those who received threats lately is Dr Masego Tshabalala, Head of Department at Community Safety, Roads, and Transport and Jack Tladi, chairperson of FSGLTA.

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