Acting District Commissioner Brigadier Ngangema Xakavu and his Police officers attended the funeral of late Trainee Athenkosi Beko. Photo: SAPS/ Facebook.
RIP: Late Police Trainee laid to rest
Late Police Trainee Athenkosi Beko who passed at a police academy in the Northern Cape was laid to rest today in his hometown
Acting District Commissioner Brigadier Ngangema Xakavu and his Police officers attended the funeral of late Trainee Athenkosi Beko. Photo: SAPS/ Facebook.
A late Police Trainee Athenkosi Beko who passed at a police academy in the Northern Cape was laid to rest on Sunday, 23 October.
HEAD OF THE DISTRICT HONOURS LATE POLICE TRAINEE
Acting District Commissioner Brigadier Ngangema Xakavu and his Police officers attended the funeral of late Trainee Athenkosi Beko after he passed away while he was trained to be a Police Officer at Sai Academy in Kimberley in the Northern Cape.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FUTURE POLICEMAN
Brigadier Ngangema Xakavu in his words explained that the Trainee joined SAPS in April 2022 and got ill while in the Academy.
He sent condolences to the family on behalf of the SAPS and thanked the family for allowing their son to be part of the men and women in blue.
Mr Beko, a family representative described Trainee Beko as a man with a vision who liked to study and wanted to turn his family to be a better family in the community.
They said when they were seeing the light in the tunnel God decided otherwise but still they trust God.
Warrant Officer (Rev) Ngcepe comforted the family with the word of God that they must not be shaken but trust God wholeheartedly.
“The family appreciated the presence of the Police as they [understood] he was in training and not a full Police Officer, they thanked the organized official funeral for their son.”
Xakavu
Meanwhile, this weekend also saw the funerals of two slain police officers attached to the Boksburg North SAPS.
Twenty-nine-year-old Constable Khotso Malahlela and 45-year-old Sergeant Vusimuzi Batsha were responding to a complaint of an unnatural death in the area when they were accosted by three males. At the time of the attack, the pair were waiting for a mortuary van to arrive on the scene, when they were disarmed and fatally wounded.
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No arrests have been made so far.
