Emfuleni mayor's would-be assassins still at large

Bodyguard was wounded during attack

- By Ngwako Malatji and Bongani Mdakane

Police are still on the hunt for the assailants in the shooting of the troubled mayor of the embattled Emfuleni Local Municipality, Sipho Radebe, earlier this year.

Gauteng SAPS provincial spokesperson Col Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi confirmed that the case opened by Radebe's protector and driver, Ishmael Thiso, was "still under investigation, and there are no arrests".

Sunday World had learnt that Radebe narrowly escaped death when an unknown gunman, suspected to be a jilted lover, fired a barrage of bullets into his official vehicle in Small Farms, Evaton, on the Vaal, wounding his bodyguard, Fani Ntloba.