ANC does best to prevent violence at memorial service for Sindiso Magaqa
ANC officials are working hard in Umzimkhulu to ensure no flare up in violence as the party prepares to lay murdered councillor Sindiso Magaqa to rest. The former ANC Youth League secretary-general was gunned down in July and succumbed to his injuries in a Durban hospital on September 4. He became the tenth person to die in politically motivated killings in KwaZulu-Natal since the beginning of the year‚ with half of them being from Umzimkhulu. A memorial service was under way on Thursday afternoon in the southern KwaZulu-Natal town‚ ahead of his funeral on Saturday. But ANC provincial secretary Super Zuma said the party had worked hard to deal with tension‚ fearing further outbreaks of violence between various factors in the area. "A team of provincial executive committee members were here in Umzimkhulu meeting with branches and discussing with branches in terms of tolerance and in terms of moving together for this memorial service and the funeral‚ so that we have a dignified funera...
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