Mpumalanga Community Safety, Security and Liaison spokesperson, Joseph Mabuza, has been killed in a crash. The department’s MEC Pat Ngomane confirmed that Mabuza was killed on Saturday.
Mabuza’s motorbike hammered into a bakkie which was making a U-turn on the N4 toll road in Hectorspruit east of Malalelane.
He was killed a few minutes after conducting a live interview with SABC News on the traffic congestion at the Lebombo border post between South Africa and Mozambique.
Mabuza has been described as a humble person by MEC Pat Ngomane adding that his death is a huge loss to the provincial government.
“It’s a real loss which I ever experienced but life goes on, I met Joe when I joined the department, he was such a humble man.”
“I never ever forget what he taught me and he was a very humble pesron, when he sees that you don’t understand something he had his own way to tell you.”

Joseph Mabuza’s motorbike rammed into a bakkie which was making a U-turn on the N4 toll road in Hectorspruit east of Malalelane.