COSATU KZN on the Political Killings in KwaZulu Natal
15 May 2018
COSATU in the Province expresses its deepest concern about the continued and unabated killing of comrades and politicians in and around our communities in the province. We send our condolences to the families and colleagues of those that have perished under the merciless hands of assassins. We also urge the law enforcement agencies to work tirelessly to investigate and arrest these perpetrators.
We are concerned about this continued scourge of politically motivated killings, as we speak we have bodies of comrades lying cold in mortuaries while others were just buried in the past weekends. We have lost comrades like Cde S’fiso Cele from Lower South Coast, Cde Musawenkosi ‘Maqatha’ Mchunu from Pietermaritzburg who was gunned at Kwa Pata and numerous other comrades who have perished in a similar fashion such as Cde Sindiso Magaqa in UMzimkhulu. They are many comrades who died before and after the local government elections.
These killings can be blamed to the persisting factionalism in the movement in particular, especially in the build up to branch, regional and provincial conferences. We also strongly believe that corruption and maladministration in provincial state departments and municipalities is also responsible for these murderers.
We have noted that the Moerane Commission appointed by the Premier of KZN to investigate the killings has just concluded its work but we are worried that such Commissions have produced outcomes that are not prudently implemented.