This news aggregator site highlights South African labour news from a wide range of internet and print sources. Each posting has a synopsis of the source article, together with a link or reference to the original. Postings cover the range of labour related matters from industrial relations to generalist human resources.
Sunday World reports that a former senior engineer at the Alfred Duma local municipality (Ladysmith) in northern KwaZulu-Natal, who ordered a hit on her boss, has been sentenced to life behind bars.
Nomaswazi Shabalala was sentenced by the Madadeni Regional Court on Wednesday. She was sentenced together with the other four role players in the murder. Shabalala ordered the gruesome hit on Oscar Hlatshwayo, who served as an executive director in the engineering and infrastructure services department in the municipality. Hlatshwayo was gunned down in February 2019 while he was driving to work. His killers followed him until he reached a traffic light and sprayed his car with bullets.
After Hlatshwayo’s killing, the political killings task team followed all leads. It uncovered information that Shabalala worked with a local tenderpreneur called Mondli Mabaso, who was winning dubious tenders from the municipality until Hlatshwayo started questioning it. To eliminate Hlatshwayo, Shabalala and Mabaso hatched a plan to recruit Mduduzi Njuza, who was responsible for coordinating and supplying the firearms used to kill their target. Njuza then recruited Brown Ngcobo, a sharpshooter who was previously suspected of killing taxi owners in KZN. He was recruited to come and kill Hlatswayo. After the killing, the task team nabbed them, and their cases dragged on until their life sentences.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sihle Mavuso at Sunday World
- Read too, Ex-municipal worker sentenced after orchestrating hit on colleague, at The Witness
Get other news reports at the SA LabourNews home page