TWO women were shot while on their way from an ANC branch elections task team meeting in the township of Imbali, just outside Pietermaritzburg.One of the women died on the scene and the other wounded and taken to hospital, ANC KwaZulu-Natal spokesman Mdumiseni Ntuli said on Thursday. "They were coming from that meeting when they met the assassin on their way home," he said.Provincial police spokesperson Capt Nqobile Gwala confirmed the incident, which happened at about 9.30pm on Wednesday.This is the fourth party member to be gunned down in the province in the past two weeks.On June 1, the ANC branch chairperson in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg, Nathi Hlongwa, was shot and killed.The day before‚ Simo Mncwabe, who had just resigned as Mooi Mpofana municipality chief financial officer, was shot and killed while talking his children to school in Edendale.A third ANC member‚ identified as Makhathini‚ was murdered at Inchanga‚ between Durban and Pietermaritzburg.Ntuli said the number of ANC...
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