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National Commissioner of the South African Police Service General Fannie Masemola has deployed the National Task Team to Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal, following the killing of an IFP ward councillor and two learners.
The task team is responsible for investigating political killings.
In a statement, police have confirmed that a preliminary investigation indicates the councillor was ambushed along the R618 in Nongoma while attending to a vehicle breakdown.
The statement further confirms that a group of armed men stopped next to the vehicle and shot the councillor multiples times.
The suspects then also fired shots at a passing scholar transport taxi that was transporting learners, killing two children.
