This is not the first attempt on my life - KZN municipal speaker
24 May 2018
A KwaZulu-Natal municipal speaker is in shock after the Hawks arrested the mayor, a councillor and a third person for allegedly plotting her assassination, saying it was not the first time she had been targeted.
IFP-run Endumeni Local Municipality speaker Winfreda Mbatha-Makhathini told News24 on Thursday that she was "shocked" after hearing the news.
"I cannot tell you how shocked I am at this. I was expecting it to be someone I did not know, not someone from within my party," Mbatha-Makhathini said.
The Hawks said on Thursday that the 31-year-old mayor, a councillor and a hitman had been arrested during pre-dawn raids for allegedly plotting to kill Mbatha-Makhathini.