Six councillors, including a former mayor, that the ANC expelled for their role in toppling the party from power in Mpumalanga’s Mkhondo Local Municipality in Piet Retief have defected to the EFF.
If previous investigations of political assassinations in Mpumalanga are anything to go by, the killing of the ANC Gert Sibande regional deputy chairperson could become another cold case.
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Intense factional battles within the ANC in Mpumalanga can be so hostile in Mkhondo (Piet Retief) that they can be the reason a regional leader was assassinated in a hail of bullets.
It is inconceivable that to date, after so many whistleblowers have been killed, and others are threatened by those who stand to benefit from corruption, there is only talk about protecting them.