Another IFP man killed
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KwaZulu-Natal - An IFP member was shot dead in his car on the South Coast on Tuesday, the party said in a statement.
IFP spokesman Mntomuhle Khawula said Bongani Lushaba was ambushed in Oshabeni.
Police spokesman Colonel Jay Naicker said 13 spent AK-47 cartridges were found at the scene.
Khawula said Lushaba had been a proportional representative candidate in the 2011 local government elections.
He was the third victim of suspected politically related killings in the area in the past two months.
Lushaba was a former chairman of the local taxi association and a candidate in last year’s elections which the IFP lost to the ANC.
In September, the ANC’s Oshabeni branch chairman Dumisani Malunga and secretary Bheki Chiliza were also gunned down.
Naicker said no arrests had been made.
The killing comes four days after IFP councillor Themba Xulu’s bullet-ridden body was found in a canefield outside Inanda.
More than 100 police officers were sent to restore order in KwaMashu following the killing of Xulu, a policeman and a community member.
“I fail to understand the violence in KwaZulu-Natal. It is really horrific and shocking,” said DA spokeswoman Dianne Kohler Barnard last night. She sent her condolences to the IFP.
Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Nomusa Dube said her department would do its best to assist the police to catch the “barbaric criminals” responsible for the killings. - The Mercury