It is careless to say KZN murders are politically motivated, says Goodwill Zwelithini
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has questioned the establishment of the Moerane commission of inquiry into political killings in KwaZulu-Natal, arguing that intraparty killings were not politically motivated but acts of criminality."Even though I don’t have a problem with the commission‚ my question is whether people will stop killing each other because there is a commission. Has that ever happened?" Zwelithini said.The commission‚ which has been sitting for about a year‚ was initially estimated to cost about R15m.He said he raised similar questions during the commission of inquiry into taxi violence by Judge Gerald Alexander, in 2001. That commission was appointed by the Cabinet following incidents of taxi violence in the province, which claimed many lives."Even then the commission sat‚ and recommendations were made‚ but even today people are still being killed in the taxi industry‚" he said.Delivering his keynote address at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature at th...
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