source: Limpopo Mirror; Front Line Defenders
actor1: Unidentified Armed Group (South Africa)
actor2: Civilians (South Africa)
location: Thohoyandou
notes: On 31 January 2019, a SAMWU official was fatally shot by unknown persons in Makwarela township in the Thohoyandou area (Vhembe, Limpopo). He was the second official to be killed following a call for the removal of mayors who illegally invested money with the now-liquidated VBS Mutual Bank.