South Africa: Cape Town ANC Councillor Lazola Gungxe Gunned Down After Community Meeting

By Suné Payne

The ANC described Councillor Lazola Gungxe as 'not only a colleague, but a comrade and a friend', while the police say the motive for his murder is yet to be determined.

City of Cape Town Councillor Lazola Gungxe was fatally shot on Tuesday afternoon, 3 February, after attending a community meeting at the Old Crossroads Community Hall in Nyanga.

"The motive for the attack is yet to be determined," said Captain FC van Wyk, the spokesperson for the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the Western Cape.

"According to reports, there was a community meeting, and after the meeting the deceased discussed certain issues with the community members when two males entered and approached the deceased and shot him. They fled the scene in a white Toyota Avanza with no registration numbers.

"Nothing was taken from the deceased. Nyanga police registered a murder case for investigation."

'Full might of the law'

Gungxe joined the City of Cape Town council as a proportional representative councillor for the ANC in 2016. He was also a member of the ANC's Dullah Omar Regional Executive Committee.

He was one of a group of councillors in Subcouncil 13, which comprises wards in Philippi, Crossroads, Nyanga and Gugulethu -- areas that often make headlines for their high crime rates.

He sat on the oversight committee for the city's Department of Urban Mobility, which dealt with transport.

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