MK calls for arrest of assailants after fatal hostel shooting

The uMkhonto WeSizwe (MK) party in Gauteng has called for the immediate arrest of hostel dwellers who shot and killed one of its members and injured two others, while they were on a recruitment drive at the weekend.

- Marizka Coetzer

MK Gauteng spokesperson Abel Tau and members of the party were in Dube hostel, Soweto, on Sunday on a recruitment drive when they were encountered hostility from an induna at the hostel, who was allegedly an Inkatha Freedom Party supporter.

"This induna apparently organised electricity to be cut off to ensure that MK members would not be able to connect their PA system and continue with their programme of action on the day.

"When MK party members [brought] a portable generator to connect their PA system, two attackers, one male and one female, approached them.