Cops battle leads on the fatal shooting of Mpho Motsumi
The late Mpho Stanley Motsumi, who was gunned down on February 28, is accredited with bringing peace to the warring Armsta and ATA members in the taxi industry.
It’s now a month to date since the February 28 murder of prominent Alex businessman and president of the Greater Alexandra Chamber of Commerce (Galxcoc) Mpho Stanley Motsumi and the police are still battling to find leads on the perpetrators.
Motsumi (60) and his unnamed bodyguard were killed in a hail of bullets in the East Bank section of the township by unknown assailants driving a Toyota Quantum. Motsumi has since been laid to rest at the Fourways Memorial Park cemetery and no news has surfaced about the bodyguard.
Gauteng SAPS spokesperson Brigadier Brenda Muridili said the matter of the fatal shooting of the pair in Alexandra was still under investigation by the Gauteng Serious and Violent Crimes Unit and that no arrests or leads have been made so far.
Motsumi was a founding co-shareholder of Alex Mall and his chamber activities included the creation of an incubator hub at the Galxcoc’s Motsweding offices in Wynberg and the hub was used as a launch pad for SMMEs township individuals wanting to start businesses.
Besides his business acumen, Motsumi is also accredited with bringing peace among the warring parties in the local taxi industry, the Alexandra Taxi Association (ATA) and the Alexandra Randburg Midrand Sandton Taxi Association (Armsta).
Soon after the establishment of the mall, Motsumi called both associations to work closely together in ferrying shoppers to his mall and a deal was struck which also paved the way to the silencing of the guns in the industry which lost numerous of its leaders on both sides.
Without disclosing where and when the bush meeting was held, former public relations officer of Armsta John Mnisi told Armsta’s at the Mandela Day luncheon for the grannies and granddads last year that the two warring factions had finally found each other and agreed to silence the guns and no violent incidents have been reported now for several years.
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