ActionSA offers R50 000 reward to help arrest the culprits responsible for Soweto boys’ murder

23 April 2023

ActionSA has written to the Gauteng Provincial Police Commissioner, Elias Mawela, to offer a R50 000 reward for anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest of culprits who murdered the two boys in Soweto this past week.

The abduction of Nqobile Zulu and Tshiamo Raban, aged 5 and 6, while playing and their subsequent brutal murder again highlights how our communities are left defenceless against rising crime. I hope that this R50 000 reward will help bring justice to the Zulu and Raban families.

As someone who has long held close relationships with the community of White City in Soweto and is a close family friend of the Spokesperson of the Boys’ Families, I visited the boys’ families on Sunday afternoon alongside Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Funzi Ngobeni, and the former City of Johannesburg Chief of Police, David Tembe.

The Zulu and Raban families both welcomed our offer for reward to find the perpetrators responsible for these senseless killings and asked that the former City of Johannesburg Chief of Police, David Tembe, be the liaison between the police and the families during the investigation.

As a party committed to the rule of law, ActionSA looks forward to Commissioner Mawela accepting our offer to help arrest the culprits of the Zulu and Raban murders.

We will not rest until children can play safely play in the streets of our communities without fear for their safety, and that the rule of law is restored to all spheres of our society.

Issued by Herman Mashaba, ActionSA President, 24 April 2023