Emfuleni accountant killed ‘minutes after arriving at tyre fitment centre’

A tyre fitment centre employee, where anEmfuleni local municipalityofficial was murdered, says he was traumatised by having to put the woman’s tyre back into the vehicle while her lifeless bloodied body lay nearby. Martha Mani Rantsofu, an acting accountant at the municipality, was gunned down on March 30 in Vanderbijlpark, a stone’s throw away from the police station. Speaking to Sowetan, the employee who asked not to be named said he was the one helping Rantsofu on the day.

The man said Rantsofu arrived just after 4pm and did not even spend five minutes at the centre before she was gunned down. “The belief is that she might have been followed to the centre because it happened quick. “When she arrived, she spoke to me and asked that I help with a punctured tyre.

She was even busy on her phone before the incident.” The man said when the first shot went off, he thought it was a tyre bursting. However, he realised it was not when the gunfire continued. “I had just moved from her when she was killed.

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The tyre was not even fixed yet, but I had to finish fixing it and then fitted it back into her car while her body lay on the floor. It was a traumatic experience,” he said. “I had to jump over her blood as she was right next to the car,” said the employee, who said that he would like to get counselling after what he experienced. Another employee said he too thought the first gunshot was a tyre bursting, which is what happens in their business.

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