IFP wants ambush probed

Mazibuko killed by ‘agents of darkness’

The IFP wants a full inquiry into the killing of 44-year-old Zakhele Mazibuko‚ who was ambushed on Saturday night.

The party said on Sunday that Mazibuko‚ the organisation’s publicity secretary in the uThukela district‚ “was fatally gunned down in an ambush” between Estcourt and Colenso‚ shortly after leaving an IFP district meeting.

Mazibuko worked as an occupational and health manager at the uThukela district municipality.

Mazibuko‚ also known as Zakes‚ “was a committed and dedicated leader of the IFP who served the community with integrity”‚ said the statement by the party’s national spokesperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa and district chair Mbuzeleni Mkhize.

“The IFP and the community of uThukela have been robbed by agents of darkness and enemies of peace of a hardworking servant of the people. We are indeed poorer because of this untimely loss.

“We call for peace and calm and for the investigation to run its full course.”

Without speculating about the motive, the party said it is “of serious and grave concern that the killing of politicians has become a permanent feature of the political landscape in the province”.

“The slow pace of police interventions in curbing political violence is worrisome.”

The Moerane commission of inquiry into political killings in KwaZulu-Natal, finished its work earlier this year.

The report is expected to be released at the end of the month.