ANC delegate shot dead near Maritzburg

A KWAZULU-NATAL ANC leader who had been elected as a delegate to next month’s ANC national elective conference was gunned down in Nkanyezini‚ Camperdown‚ near Pietermaritzburg yesterday.

The ANC in the Moses Mabhida region identified him as Lungisani Mnguni‚ 34.

CR17 spokesman Sithembiso Mshengu said Mnguni had recently been elected as a delegate to the December conference‚ and that his branch had nominated Cyril Ramaphosa as their presidential candidate.

He was assassinated in Ward 3‚ ironically the same ward in which Mkhambathini Ward 3 councillor Everlast Mkhize had been gunned down after a branch meeting in August.

Mnguni‚ a businessman‚ was involved in the school-food nutrition programme in the area‚ and it appears that he was attacked while on his way to deliver food. “He is the former ANC branch chairperson in Ward 7. The ANC is horrified at losing such a young comrade.

“The passing of comrade Mnguni will leave a void in the ranks of the ANC‚ the alliance and the mass democratic movement in general‚ that will not be easy to fill‚” Moses Mabhida regional secretary Mzi Zuma said.

Police said Mnguni had been on his way to supply food to a school‚ when he was accosted by unknown suspects‚ who fired shots at him and fled in a vehicle.