Former Mkhondo Local Municipality Mayor Vusi Motha and a local security company boss Sifiso Sangweni were arrested and they made their first appearance in the Piet Retief Magistrate s Court on Tuesday.
On Friday, councillor in the Mkhondo Local Municipality, Sibongiseni Ntshangase, was shot and killed alongside two others at Longhomes township outside Mkhondo.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has given an assurance to community members in the Gert Sibande District in Mpumalanga that political killings within the governing party will soon be a thing of the past.