An ANC Nelson Mandela Bay councillor and a member of the party's regional executive have been killed in a shooting in Kariega.

An ANC Nelson Mandela Bay councillor and a member of the party’s regional executive have been killed in a shooting in Kariega.

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3 May 2022

The Eastern Cape police have confirmed that Andile Andries and Lubabalo Keso were gunned down outside Andries’ home in KwaNobuhle. Whether Andries’ murder is related to a raging taxi war in the Eastern Cape or the ANC ahead of the hotly contested upcoming provincial elective conference is unknown. Besides politics, Andries was also the deputy general-secretary of the Uncedo Taxi Association nationally and a chair of the SA National Taxi Council (SANTACO) in the Nelson Mandela Bay region.

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