Bogus meeting, elite soldiers’ cellphone records key to murder of Hawks detective
The assassin who killed Mathipa shot him twice between the eyes from a moving car, police sources say
20 August 2023 - 00:00
Top Hawks officer Lt-Col Frans Mathipa was assassinated days after divulging at a meeting details of his investigation into the mysterious disappearance of suspected Isis financier Abdella Abadiga from a Johannesburg shopping mall. ..
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