Emfuleni Local Municipality employee Martha Mani Rantsofu laid to rest following fatal shooting

By Marcus Moloko

Emfuleni Local Municipality employee Matha Mani Rantsofu was shot and killed in Vanderbijlpark last month in a brazen daylight shooting.

Rantsou was laid to rest on Saturday.

Rantsofu worked in the finance department of the Emfuleni Municipality as a finance clerk.

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Calls are mounting for stronger protection of whistleblowers after the brazen killing of the 39-year-old finance clerk who was shot dead in an execution‑style attack on 30 March 2026 while servicing her car at a tyre fitment centre near the Vanderbijlpark Police Station.

CCTV footage, widely circulated on social media, shows a gunman approaching her from behind while she was on her phone and firing five shots, one directly to her head.

Police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said the assailant fled in a