By-election in Soshanguve following the killing of an ANC councillor
5 September 2018
Residents of Ward 37 in Soshanguve, Tshwane, are expected to head to the voting stations on Wednesday in a by-election to elect a new councillor after the ANC's Siphiwe Montlha was gunned down in May this year.
Montlha, who had been the ward's councillor since 2011, was shot in Block GG after attending an ANC meeting.
At the time of the shooting, Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said police were investigating his death.
Dlamini said Montlha had gone to a construction site, where he was accosted by two men.