Police are either involved in KZN killings or protecting ANC officials, DA says
Corrupt ANC politicians have been blamed for a climate of "fear‚ intimidation‚ assassinations and killings" in Richmond‚ the Moerane commission of inquiry heard in Durban on Monday. "Those that are doing the stealing want to eliminate those that are trying to expose them‚" testified DA constituency head for Richmond‚ Dean Macpherson. In the past few months Richmond councillor Sfiso Mkhize‚ deputy mayor Thandazile Phoswa‚ municipal manager S’bu Sithole and ward councillor Ntokozo ‘Lithi’ Maphumulo, were gunned down in the small KwaZulu-Natal town. Macpherson told the commission — established to investigate the underlying causes of the murder of politicians in KwaZulu-Natal — that Sithole was unpopular due to his strong stance against corruption. Sithole received an award for being the best municipal manager in the province. He was against the ANC’s application to pay two of its councillors full-time salaries‚ suspended a senior manager for alleged corruption linked to tenders and was...
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