DA calls on eThekwini Speaker Thabani Nyawose to remove ANC councillor following arrest for murder

THE Democratic Alliance (DA) in eThekwini said on Monday it has noted with serious concern media reports and the ANC statement confirming that one of the ANC ward councillors has been arrested facing serious allegations of murder.

This after an ANC media statement on Monday confirming that the party’s ward councillor and other suspects were arrested in connection with the murder of ANC members Siyabonga Mkhize and Mzukisi Nyanga.

ANC councillor candidate for eThekwini, Mkhize and ANC local leader, Nyanga, were shot dead in Cato Crest in Durban in November last year.

“We have since written to the Speaker of council, Councillor Thabani Nyawose to seek clarity and impress upon him as the custodian of the councillors’ code of conduct to take necessary action against the councillor until that councillor is cleared by a competent court of law,” said Thabani Mthethwa, DA eThekwini Chief Whip.

“It is a known fact