News24.com | Two more people arrested in connection with 2019 murder of Limpopo councillors

Police guard Limpopo councillor Valtyn Kekana's family home after he was gunned down together with sub-regional chairman Ralph Kanyane.

• Two more people have been arrested in connection with the 2019 murder of two ANC councillors.
• This brings to seven the number of people arrested in connection with the incident.
• Valtyn Kekana and Ralph Kanyane were sitting in a car when a gunman shot them.

Two more people have been arrested in connection with the July 2019 murder of Mogalakwena municipality councillors Valtyn Kekana and Ralph Kanyane.

This brings to seven the number of people arrested for the double murder.

The two people, aged 47 and 63, were arrested in Mokopane, Limpopo on Monday evening, according to police spokesperson, Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo.

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The ANC councillors were seated in a motor vehicle in Mokopane on 23 July 2019, when a gunman allegedly approached and started firing shots at them at point-blank range, News24 previously reported. The assailant fled on foot.

The councillors died at the scene.

Kekana was the chairperson of the municipal public accounts committee in the Mogalakwena municipality, and Kanyane was the party's branch secretary in the region.

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It is suspected that the shooting was politically motivated.

The two people are expected to appear in the Mokopane Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

In May last year, News24 reported that four people were arrested in Sekgakgapeng, Moshate, Tshamahansi, and Mokopane in connection with the incident.

Samuel Seruputlane, 50; Jabulane Petros Mashamaite, 43; James Mswezi Chuma, 42; and Nkholo Frans Mangadi, 49, are scheduled to stand trial in the Limpopo High Court on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, two counts of murder and possession of an illegal firearm.

According to a Polokwane Review report, a fifth person, Steven Mohlala, 28, was arrested in Lebowakgomo in January.