Mr Johannes Mahlangu (51) was reversing his car when out of nowhere appeared a speeding sedan, the unknown vehicle stopped near a gate and one of the occupants fired several shots at Mahlangu.<\/p>\n
He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died.<\/a><\/p>\n Mahlangu worked as a Control Provincial Inspector at the Middelburg Cost Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n The motive of the senseless slaying of the respected traffic officer remains unknown and a murder case is being investigated by the Kwaggafontein police.<\/p>\n Mpumalanga Community Safety, Security and Liaison MEC, Vusi Shongwe, has condemned the murder.<\/p>\n Shongwe has also called on community members who have information to come forward in order to assist the police.<\/p>\n Mr Mahlangu will be remembered as a dedicated family man by his family and a hard working and reliable traffic officer by his co-workers.<\/a><\/p>\n “I have lost both a brother and a friend,” said older brother Sampie Mahlangu.<\/p>\n He leaves behind his wife and eight children.<\/p>\n Mahlangu will be laid to rest on Saturday, 10:00 at his house in Tweefontein Ext 2, Kwamhlanga.<\/p>\n Read related stories here:<\/p>\n Update: Captain shot wife, then himself<\/a><\/p>\n Ongoing marriage dispute end in bloodbath<\/a><\/p>\n K-woord lei glo tot geveg<\/a><\/p>\n Geen blaastoestel beskikbaar<\/a><\/p>\n Video: Nog skokkende magsmisbruik<\/a><\/p>\n Send a message to our SMS line 37 940 or add us onto Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> to receive your free daily news updates.<\/p>\n Also check out our Video\u2019s<\/a> on Youtube<\/a> daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Middelburg traffic officer were killed in a senseless shooting outside a relatives house in Vlaklaagte, Kwamhlanga on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":31324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}