Three EFF members were gunned down in Shukushukuma informal settlement, Mfuleni, Cape Town, resulting in a manhunt by the Western Cape Police.
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According to SAPS spokesperson Brigadier Novela Potelwa, law enforcement was called to the scene on Tuesday evening, where they discovered two bodies with gunshot wounds.
‘A third male, who had been taken to hospital, succumbed to his injuries,’ Potelwa confirmed to News24.
‘No one has been arrested yet, and all leads are being pursued.’
💔Message of Condolence💔
EFF WESTERN CAPE CONVEYS ITS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF THE THREE EFF MEMBERS WHO WERE GUNNED DOWN IN WARD 108 IN MFULENI LAST NIGHT
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— EFF_Western Cape (@EFFWesternCape_) August 30, 2023
In a statement posted by the EFF on social media, the party described Lubabalo Feketsha, Lulamo Siya Fatyela and Luyanda Mtsila as community activists who ‘serviced and jealously guarded’ their community and its people.
‘A part of us died with them.’
All three suspects were in their thirties and part of the Ward 108 Shukushukuma Informal Settlement Committee, which had resolved to demolish the house of an alleged drug dealer in their ward.
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‘As a form of retaliation, the drug dealer threatened them, and subsequent to his threat, all three fighters were later mercilessly gunned down,’ the EFF claimed.
‘These fighters were members of the EFF in good standing, community leaders, fearless ground forces and activists who died in the line of duty in service of their community.’
‘Their lives were cut short by the bullets of the enemy of the people.’
The party said that Feketsha, Fatyela and Mtsila were respected in the community for fighting against the illegal selling of plots, fighting crime and gender-based violence and ‘actively fighting against drug dealing and alcohol abuse in their community’.
‘[We] hope that they will find solace in these difficult times,’ it said.
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