Police are looking for a suspect after Mr Sputnik van der Merwe was shot and later died at Bethal hospital on Wednesday, September 22.
Its alleged that Mr Van der Merwe (63) was washing his car at his home when an unknown man came up to him and shot him.
The suspect then jumped into a white bakkie and sped away.
Mr Van der Merwe was rushed to hospital where he died.
According Sgt Cynthia Mtsweni, eMzinoni police spokesperson, the suspect’s face was apparently covered with a cloth.
She said six 9mm cartridges were recovered on the scene and taken for forensic analysis.
No arrest has been made yet.
Mr Van der Merwe was a known community and South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) leader at eMzinoni and Bethal, fighting for injustices.
Sakhisizwe Progressive Movement president, Mr Sibusiso Hlolweni, said they are sad to learn about the passing of Mr Van der Merwe who was also SAPROMO’s general secretary.
Mr Hlolweni describe Mr Van der Merwe as one of the founding member of SAPROMO, a moving political library, teacher of Africanism and law.
“We want to see the law take its course and find the killers of Mr Van der Merwe. We are not yet healed by the passing of Mr King Mahlangu, who was also shot dead some years ago and we don’t know who is next.
“Whoever wants to kill SAPROMO by assassinating its leaders will never succeed, said Mr Hlolweni.
Mr Mahlangu, an activist, a former Sanco leader and the general secretary of the Sakhisizwe Progressive Movement, was shot and killed in Middelburg on Tuesday, August 29, 2016.
He was on his way from a Practical Radical Economic Transformation (PRET) launch in Nkomazi when he was murdered.
