In March, politically connected Mpumalanga crime boss, Clyde Mnisi, was shot and killed by four balaclava-clad gunmen armed with assault rifles. The murder came five months after he was crowned a chief. His wife, Charlene Mathews, was shot dead shortly after his funeral.
Assassins are often recruited from the criminal underworld, taxi gangs and, in some cases, from law enforcement. The existence of the ‘business’ of assassinations has long been recognised by the state, prompting the launch of several commissions of inquiry, including the Moerane Commission of Inquiry into political assassinations in KwaZulu-Natal .
Targeted killings carry significant strategic and symbolic weight. They allow criminal groups “to influence political processes and exert and maintain control over communities.” The proliferation of illegal firearms and recruitment pools of hitmen available in the taxi industry – specifically in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and Western Cape – are due in part to the unregulated nature of the industry.
On Monday this week, Groundup reported that an ANC councillor had been shot dead in Philippi in Cape Town while attending a meeting to discuss the relocation of people occupying a disused rail line.The Business of Killing report cites the case of Mzimuni Ngiba, a ‘feared strongman’ in the eThekwini metro who lost an internal ANC contest to Siyabonga Mkhize in 2021. Mkhize was assassinated in October 2021 but won the elections posthumously.
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