Police Minister Bheki Cele has urged law-enforcement agencies to "pull up their socks" in tracking down the killers behind the deaths of several political leaders on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast — or face "consequence management". Cele was speaking from Margate on Tuesday morning‚ where he met police‚ including the head of the Hawks and the special task team to investigate political killings. His visit to the area comes after the death of ANC branch leader Sifiso Cele‚ who was shot execution-style in full view of his partner and children on Monday morning. Sifiso Cele’s death was the second in two weeks following the death of Nombuso Mqadi‚ also from the Oshabeni branch. The minister said that while Cele’s attackers took his cellphones and R3,000‚ there was a strong suspicion that the robbery was a decoy for the real motive for the killing. "They are investigating the politics of the murder. This belt of the south coast — Umzimkhulu‚ Pietermartizburg and Richmond — it is a common t...

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