ANC SG Fikile Mbalula has strongly condemned the ongoing killing of councillors, politicians in KZN
The African National Congress Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has strongly condemned the ongoing killing of councillors and other politicians in KwaZulu-Natal.
The blood-curdling cries of the grief-stricken women from the village of Shobashobane in 1995 on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast as they watched the coffins of their loved ones, friends, and neighbours being carried at their mass funeral. In October 2016, the then KZN Premier Willies Mchunu established the Moerane Commission to investigate the root causes of these attacks. The Commission found, amongst other things, that the barriers of entry to becoming a councillor are extremely low, and the political positions of councillors create opportunities for access to resources, which can lead to corruption.
The DA leader in KwaZulu-Natal, Francois Rodgers, says, “Part of the problem is that as the state, we have let people down. Crime, no matter what crime you are referring to, whether it is murder or rape or robberies, is out of control, and when people feel vulnerable, voters and residents become despondent. Then you go to an election, and they will say, Does it matter whether I vote for A, B, or C nothing is going to change.
The IFP chairperson in KwaZulu-Natal, Thami Ntuli, has challenged Police Minister Bheki Cele to treat the response to politically related killings as when a police officer is killed. In the latter instance, a 72-hour activation plan to trace and arrest the suspects is activated immediately. “After the Moerane Commission, Bheki Cele set up a Task Team, and that Task Team has made more than two hundred arrests and some convictions. One guy from eThekwini, I think, two weeks ago, was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a councillor. When somebody gets killed who is profiled for example Magaqa, the media will go there and publicize the case, and then an arrest will be made, but when the case is going on, the media is focusing somewhere else, but it appears as if nothing is done.
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