Activists mourn Mokoena Letsie, vow to continue community work
The killings have sent shockwaves among activists countrywide.
Black News 
Activists attending the funeral of one of their own in Potchefstroom, North West, have vowed to continue to serve communities despite growing safety concerns.
Mokoena Letsie was gunned down last week, just days after the fatal shooting of Mahikeng-based activist Thato Molosankwe.
The killings have sent shockwaves among activists countrywide.
A community activist from Gauteng, Peter Monethe says, “I spoke to him a week before he passed on. And he was someone that we were planning to have something with, comrades from the housing assembly in Cape Town, possibly the first week of July. We were going to have a meeting regarding homelessness and the struggle in housing, especially with the people who have the title deeds but are not staying in their houses. So it’s a very sad situation. It’s a very sad moment that we have to lose him the way we lost him.”
Funeral service for North West activist Mokoena Letsie is currently under way at the JB Marks Local Municipality following reports that he was gunned down last week. Community members, friends, and fellow activists have gathered to pay their final respects. #sabcnews @morutloa pic.twitter.com/g6A4OHPfTw
— Itumeleng Kgajane (@ikgajane) June 6, 2026
Community Safety MEC Wessels Morweng says the loss of two social activists in two weeks raises serious questions.
“An attack on an activist is an attack on the democracies; it’s an attack on the rule of law; it’s an attack on the ways that we need in society. You must remember, last week, we had the unfortunate passing of Thato Molosankwe, who was also a social activist and advocate of social justice in society. Now, it can’t be that we sit down and not become meticulous in our view that it can’t be that in two weeks we lose the activists; in the same manner, something out of the ordinary must be done.”
