By Marcus Moloko
Emfuleni Local Municipality employee Matha Mani Rantsofu was shot and killed in Vanderbijlpark last month in a brazen daylight shooting.
Rantsou was laid to rest on Saturday.
Rantsofu worked in the finance department of the Emfuleni Municipality as a finance clerk.
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Calls are mounting for stronger protection of whistleblowers after the murder of the 39-year-old clerk, who was shot dead in an execution‑style attack on 30 March 2026 while servicing her car at a tyre fitment centre near the Vanderbijlpark Police Station.
CCTV footage, widely circulated on social media, shows a gunman approaching her from behind while she was on her phone and firing five shots, one directly to her head.
Police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said the assailant fled in a blue Volkswagen
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