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A police constable has been shot and killed during a robbery at a spaza shop in Temba, north of Pretoria.
Police spokesperson, Colonel Noxolo Kweza, says the shop owner was also shot and critically wounded in the incident.
She said police were summoned to the scene on Wednesday morning and upon arrival came under fire from inside the premises.
Kweza says the robbers escaped with the shop owner's firearm and two cellphones.
No other officers were injured and no arrests have been made.
Meanwhile, the SA Policing Union has urged newly appointed Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko to take drastic steps against those involved in the reported R45 million police accommodation and meals scandal.
SAPU general secretary, Oscar Skommere, says this huge amount can never be justifiable in the face of many challenges that the police are faced with.
He says the new Minister must institute a transparent investigation into the circumstances surrounding what he described as a fiasco.
The Star newspaper reported on Wednesday that the police department had spent about 45 million rand in a year on meals and accommodation, while racking up R150 million in irregular and wasteful expenditure in about five years.
Skommere said the probe must be wider and look further to the companies that benefited.
