Media Statement
South African Police Service
Office of the Provincial Commissioner of Western Cape

Cape Town: Western Cape police are reeling from shock after a 29-year-old police official was found dead in Mfuleni on Sunday morning.

The 29-year-old policewoman who was attached to Samora Machel SAPS had allegedly been out with a friend visiting acquaintances in the area when the incident occurred. Mfuleni police were alerted to an unknown body that was discovered in Malgas camp, Extension 4, Mfuleni in the early hours of Sunday morning. Upon arrival they initiated an investigation. It was in that process that it was ascertained the deceased person was a SAPS member.

A 30-year-old suspect was subsequently arrested by Mfuleni police.  Further investigations about the circumstances that led to her death including the possibility that she was raped, are the subject of an investigation that has since been undertaken by the Western Cape DPCI (Hawks) investigators.

Western Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lt Gen Thembisile Patekile has expressed condolences to the family and colleagues of the deceased police Constable. He assured that with the investigation currently underway, the law will take its course.

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