National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola says the investigation into the deaths of the three police constables is still ongoing. Masemola says police are still doing investigations on the vehicle they were travelling in.
He was addressing mourners at the memorial service of Keamogetswe Buys, Cebekhulu Linda and Boipelo Senoge in Bloemfontein. Their remains were retrieved from the Hennops River in Centurion, Gauteng after they went missing on the 23rd of April.
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Masemola has thanked the families of constables for giving them their daughters and son to serve in the South African Police.
Free State MEC for Community Safety, Roads and Transport, Jabu Mbalula says the three police constables will be remembered for their dedication and hard work.
“They were really committed to their work. As we know, they were on their way, two of them were deployed in one of the critical programs that we are fighting, Vala uMgodi in Limpopo Province. So, it’s a great loss. We are here today, there are those things in life that we can’t change. We are here to pay tribute to the three members of the South African Police Service,” says Mbalula.
Free State Premier, Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae has described the day the bodies of the three constables were retrieved from the Hennops River in Gauteng, and the night of the announcement by the National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola as agonising.
An emotional Mathae says the devastation was felt in the province. She says that night became a reality that was never expected.
Free State Premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae breaks down after delivering her tribute to the 3 police officers.
She is being comforted by the Deputy Minister of Police Polly Boshielo who has also been inconsolable. #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/CyQVBz6Qfe— Chriselda Zozi Lewis (Babes Wendaba) (@Chriseldalewis) May 6, 2025
Mathae, however, has thanked the families of the three constables, Buys, Linda and Senoge for opening their homes and worked with the provincial government.
She says the pain the families are going through is indescribable but they will overcome it with time.
“And at that particular moment, we held on to the hope that the bodies found were not that of three police officers, but rather of other people. You can, therefore, imagine the devastation we felt when the National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola confirmed that the bodies from the river were indeed of our three police officers. My heart sank because I could not believe what the three families going through. The death of a child is every parent’s worse nightmare and unfortunately for Senoge, Linda an Buys families their nightmare had now become a reality,” says Mathae.
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