Popular South African TV presenter, Johann Botha,
has died after he was shot during a robbery at a bar in the Maboneng Precinct
in Johannesburg. The owner of the bar was also killed in the attack.
Botha was popular for presenting the long-running wildlife show 50/50 on SABC2. He was also a producer on the investigative news programme Carte Blanche and worked on KykNet’s Projek Aardwolf. The news of his death was confirmed in a tweet by Pretoria FM reporter, Anton Meijer.
The tweet read: "#JohannBotha was shot and killed at a bar in the Maboneng precinct during an armed robbery last night. The owner of the bar also killed."
The
police are currently looking for four suspects, three men and a woman, in
connection with the shooting. South Africans have taken to various social
media platforms to pay tribute to Botha while calling on their government to
make their country safer for everyone.
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