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Family, friends and colleagues have gathered to pay their final respects to Anti-Gang Unit member Constable Thapelo Tlometsane.
His funeral service will be held on Sunday morning in his home village of Gedroogde, in Zebediela, Limpopo.
[VISUALS] The funeral of 29-year-old Constable Thapelo Tlometsane is underway in Gedroogde, Zebediela, outside Polokwane. Tlometsane was killed alongside fellow anti-gang unit officer Constable Sphiwe Sibeko in an ambush in Reiger Park last Friday. His brother, David, remembers… pic.twitter.com/MtDIIeNldq
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Tlometsane was one of two Anti-Gang Unit members killed in a shooting incident in Reiger Park east of Johannesburg last Friday.
His colleague, Constable Sphiwe Sibeko, was buried in Springs on Saturday.
Tlometsane’s elder brother, David Tlometsane describes him as a reserved person.
“Thapelo was a quiet man who is always disciplined, if you call him in order, he would do it immediately. If you gave him a task or a job to do, he would do it without question. That’s how he was. He did not want to hate someone, he was always smiling.”
Video | Family fondly remembers slain Constable Thapelo Tlometsane: