Limpopo Motorist Shot and Killed, South Africans Shaken

• South Africans were devastated after a motorist was shot and killed on the N1 outside Makhado in Limpopo
• The incident happened near the Rondebosch plot when a motorist had a breakdown, and an armed motorist fatally shot him
• Netizens commented on the violent incident, and some noted how unsafe the country was becoming due to the increase in violent crime

Tebogo Mokwena, a Briefly News current affairs journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa, covered a range of criminal activities, including cash-in-transit heists, kidnappings, taxi violence, police investigations, police shootouts, and court cases at Daily Sun for over three years.

MAKHADO, LIMPOPO — The South African Police Service is investigating a fatal shooting that resulted in one death in Makhado, Limpopo, on 17 August 2025.

According to SABC News, the victim was travelling on the N1 road outside of Makhado when he had a breakdown near the Rondebosch plot. Another motorist stopped his car and reportedly opened fire without warning. The driver was shot in the upper body and head as he was trying to escape. The whereabouts of the other occupants of the car are unknown, and the motive behind the incident remains unknown.

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A look at other fatal shooting incidents

Four people were killed in Pretoria in October 2024 in two separate shooting incidents. A Pretoria businessman reportedly shot a woman in a residential complex in Rietfontein before returning to his supermarket, where he killed two employees before shooting himself.

A Soweto barbershop owner witnessed a taxi boss's gruesome death on 2 April 2025. Three gunmen entered his barbershop, where the taxi boss was getting a headache. They shot him three times before leaving.

Two Eastern Cape sisters were shot and killed in their sleep in Alice on 13 May 2025. The sisters, aged 75 and 85, were sleeping in their home when suspects entered the house and murdered them.

A member of the South African Police Service was shot and killed outside of a mosque in Athlone in Cape Town on 3 May 2025. The constable was in a car with another woman when two armed men approached them and fired at them, killing them.

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What did South Africans say?

Netizens commenting on Facebook were disturbed, and some called for the death penalty.

Bothwell Sur Hove said:

"I was kidnapped and robbed twice in Louis Trichardt. I will never hike again when travelling."

Humphrey Sidie said:

"Another normal day in SA, killing each other is the order of the day."

Rass Nino said:

"Only in SA do unemployed people have guns."

Onalerona Oo said:

"The death penalty is going to be a solution in South Africa."

2 arrested after elderly couple killed in Rustenb-+AaQAAERRRurg road rage

In a related article, Briefly News reported that two people were arrested after they shot and killed an elderly couple on 14 June 2025 in the North West. The incident happened in Rustenburg.

The incident was reportedly the result of road rage. The suspects were arrested shortly after escaping from the scene.

Source: Briefly News