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Zuma warns ANC members about safety

LOSS: ANC councillor Wandile Mkhize
LOSS: ANC councillor Wandile Mkhize

ANC members must be vigilant following the killing of councillor Wandile Mkhize, President Jacob Zuma warned on Sunday. He was speaking at Mkhize's funeral service near Port Shepstone in KwaZulu-Natal.

"I want to appeal to all ANC members to be vigilant as it seems that there still exists some forces of darkness who are bent on dividing our movement and creating mistrust," he said.

Mkhize and Nhlakanipho Ntshangase were walking along a road in Margate when they were shot at by gunmen in a car last Saturday.

Mkhize died at the scene while Ntshangase sustained critical injuries.

"This is not the first incident in this province. The killing of ANC comrades is becoming commonplace and thus requiring serious investigations," Zuma said.

"We are even more concerned when such deaths are targeted towards ANC leaders, and they die in a hail of bullets in an assassination style."

Zuma said because Mkhize was an active, hard-working, dedicated, disciplined and principled ANC member he managed to climb through the party's ranks.

He said those who had seen Mkhize at the party's national policy conference in Gauteng the week before were shocked to hear of his death.

Zuma conveyed his condolences to Mkhize's wife and children and his close friends. He wished Ntshangase a speedy recovery.

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