The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has received with heavy heart the news of the sudden passing of its long serving security officer Mthokosizi Dlaba Shezi who was brutally shot whilst entering his home in Zola, Soweto on Friday night. Comrade Shezi was shot and killed as he was arriving at his home coming from the NUM’s two days long Special National Congress which was held at Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre in Boksburg.