A top plastic surgeon and his 49-year-old wife were murdered in their bed shortly before midnight on Wednesday, Johannesburg police said.
Spokesperson Sanku Tsunke said on Thursday that two armed men entered the house in Crown North, Mayfair, and fired several shots at Dr Mahomed Anwar Kadwa (50) and his wife, Munira, killing both.
A preliminary investigation found nothing missing and the motive for the slaying is not yet known.
Tsunke said the couple’s son, daughter and daughter-in-law were in the house at the time. One of them sustained a slight injury to the forehead.
Kadwa graduated as a doctor in 1976 and was acting head of the division of plastic surgery at the University of the Witwatersrand between 1987 and 1990.
Since then and up to the time of his death, he was in private practice at the Park Lane clinic in Parktown.
Apart from having been a keen fisherman, he was also a collector of cycads.
A task team from Johannesburg serious and violent crimes unit has been assigned to the case. — Sapa