full_name: Richard Motasi
firstname: Richard
description: An SAP member who was shot dead by Northern Transvaal Security Branch operatives at Temba, Bophuthatswana, on 1 December 1987. Sergeant Motasi had been suspended after laying charges of assault against a white SAP officer. Four Northern Transvaal Security Branch operatives, including the second in command, were granted amnesty for the killings. They testified that they had conducted the operation on the instructions of the divisional commissioner of police, who had told them that Sergeant Motasi was a double agent (AC/2001/010, AC/1999/030 and AC/1999/32). 