FUL: Murder used as tool to undermine rule of law
A non-profit group has warned of the danger posed to the rule
of law following the recent spate of assassinations in the country.
In KZN on Thursday, five people were killed and three wounded in separate drive-by shootings in Tongaat.
Police say one of the targets appears to have been a taxi owner.
In the first incident a vehicle came under fire on the R102.
A driver and a passenger died.
Police say a few minutes later, the same car with the gunmen was seen at the second incident at the Fairbreeze intersection, where three security guards were shot dead.
A taxi boss, who was being escorted in a separate vehicle, was unharmed.
Former Constitutional Court judge Johann Kriegler, who's with Freedom Under Law, says these types of killings pose a threat to constitutional democracy.
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"Murder is being used as a tool to undermine the rule of law, which means that it is endangering the public. A constitutional system depends on the law being maintained in an orderly fashion."
Police are also working to solve the suspected assassination of well-known liquidator Cloete Murray and his son, who were ambushed by gunmen on the N1 in Midrand on Saturday.
