PHUTI MOSOMANE
FORMER Mkhondo Local Municipality mayor Vusi Motha has been arrested on charges of possessing an unlicensed firearm.
He appeared alongside Sifiso Sangweni in the Mkhondo Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
Motha was charged for being in possession of an illegal firearm, while Sangweni faces a charge of providing a firearm and ammunition to a person not authorised to carry it.
Both the accused were remanded in custody.
The case has been adjourned to 24 January.
The arrest of Motha and Sangweni comes after a video of an ANC councillor Sibonelo Mthembu went viral on social media.
In the video, Mthembu allegedly accused Motha and Sangweni for being behind political killings in Mkhondo, adding that they were in the process of killing him because he and other councillors tried to expose massive corruption in the municipality.
Shortly after circulating the video, Mthembu was gunned down in Piet Retief last Friday night
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