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On February 16, Wendy Kloppers was shot and killed in her car outside the Power Construction N2 Gateway site in Delft, Cape Town.
The City of Cape Town is offering an R100 000 cash reward to anyone willing to help find those responsible for the brutal killing of one of its officials.
Kloppers worked as an official in the City’s Environmental Affairs Department, and she is sadly one of five people shot at the Power Construction’s N2 Gateway site in just a week.
Before her, three construction workers were shot and wounded. There was also a petrol bomb launched at the site.
This is all being referred to as the construction mafia running an extortion war and intimidating its enemy out of the territory it’s trying to claim.
Matlhodi Maseko, the DA spokesperson on human settlements, said there had been 14 cases of housing extortion reported, per IOL:
Kloppers had been sitting inside a white BMW on Thursday when she was shot, sustaining multiple gunshot wounds. A passenger who was with her was wounded in the arm.
It seems that Kloppers had been waiting for the security guard to open the gate at the construction site when an unknown male approached the car on foot and fired several shots at the driver’s side.
Police spokesperson Joseph Swartbooi said Delft SAPS are investigating cases of murder and attempted murder, with no suspects on the cards just yet.
The site is meant to become the home to an R500 million Delft Symphony Way building project that will accommodate beneficiaries of Blikkiesdorp to Freedom Farm.
It is supposed to accommodate 3 300 homes that began building in March 2022, but the site has been temporarily closed now due to safety concerns amid these mafia-style killings, The Daily Voice reported.
The City said its building contractors have been targeted by an extortion ring, which has placed its larger R1-billion housing scheme in jeopardy:
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said the spate of shootings affected the family of the deceased, as well as the surviving victims, including housing beneficiaries, and have called for the killers to be brought to book.
“We feel devastated as an organisation today, and have a clear message for the public, the Delft community, and the future beneficiaries of this housing project: help us find the killers, and help us protect this housing project so that it is not derailed.”
He added that the city “will not be intimidated by selfish thugs” as they need to continue the mission to deliver “much-needed housing to our poorest communities that really need it”.
Wendy Kloppers was shot dead hours after Police Minister Bheki Cele announced Delft as the second-highest precinct for murder nationally.
[source:dailyvoice&iol]
