No action against ANC councillor accused of murder
The ANC in eThekwini says it won't be taking any action against murder-accused councillor Mzimuni Ngiba until the court has delivered judgment.
Opposition parties have called on the ANC to suspend him after his arrest last week.
Ngiba is alleged to have been involved in the killing of his predecessor Councillor Siyabonga Mkhize and bodyguard Mzukisi Nyanga last year.
The pair was shot after they had just concluded a door-to-door campaign ahead of the Local Government Elections.
"As the African National Congress, we would attract some bad and adverse image in the sense that we would of had someone who is a killer who would have been part of our structures and part of the government of eThekwini Municipality," says ANC regional spokesperson Mlondolozi Mkhize.
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"In the instance where that cannot be proven we don't think that the ANC will attract a bad name. We will think that the South African Police Service will have to pursue the case up until we are able to find the people that will be arrested."
Ngiba and four alleged accomplices appeared at the Durban Magistrate's Court last week.
The NPA says the matter has been postponed to next month.
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