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From arrests to life sentences: Another win for SAPS political killings task team

The South African Police Service’s (SAPS’s) political killings task team’s investigations have led to a another successful conviction, this time in the murder case of slain Oscar Hlatshwayo. Hlatshwayo, who served as the Alfred Duma Local Municipality’s executive director in the engineering and infrastructure services department, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Ladysmith in 2019. The conviction comes as the task team continues to make strid…

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The South African broke the news in Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday, August 7, 2025.
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