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The visit to the Piet Retief policing area will also include a comfort visit to the family home of the slain councillor.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Members of the media are invited to attend the comfort visits to the bereaved families.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Date: 16 January 2023<\/P><P>Time: 11:00<\/P><P>Venue: No. 1 Kruger Street, Piet Retief.<\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Police Service<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPUMALANGA &#8211; The Minister and Deputy Minister of Police and the SAPS management, led by National Commissioner, General Fannie Masemola, will on Monday 16 January 2023 visit Piet Retief in Mpumalanga, following the murder of a ward Councillor and two ot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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