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The Inkatha Freedom Party has condemned in the strongest possible
terms yet another violent attack on one of its councillors from the
Umvoti Municipality in KwaZulu Natal.

Enock Sibongiseni Shange (32) was attacked and shot several times by
an AK47 rifle which has left him in a critical condition in hospital.
This comes shortly after the murder of Nthuthuko Ngcobo another IFP
councillor from the area.

"We are shocked and outraged by yet another brutal attack on one of
our leaders in the Greytown area. We call on the law enforcement
agencies to urgently investigate this matter and to bring to book
those who have committed this atrocity. The offender/s must face the
full brunt of the law," said the Rev Musa Zondi, the IFP Secretary
General and national spokesperson.

Rev Zondi said that the latest attack comes in the wake of rumours
that have been circulating that a certain political party had plotted
to wrestle power from the IFP-led Umvoti Municipality, by hook or by
crook.

"It is quite clear that IFP ward councillors are being targeted for
assassination and this gives credence to the rumours that there is
well laid-out sinister plan to instigate violent conflict on the
ground in Umvoti. If IFP ward councillors are removed one-by-one, it
will force by-elections in the area and give the political party in
question the opportunity to intimidate the local community in order to
take control of the municipality," said Zondi.

Rev Zondi has called on the leaders and supporters of the ANC and the
IFP to get together and to once again firmly reject any form of
violence directed against anyone, anywhere in the province.

"We must solve the problem in Umvoti before it escalates into a full
inter-party conflict. Political intolerance has raised its ugly head
again and we must curb it before it reignites the political
intolerance which rocked the province and the country in the 1980s and
early 1990s," concluded Rev Zondi.