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Ntshalintshali condemns shooting of municipal worker
He was part of four workers who had come to fix leaking pipes in one of the informal settlements in the area when a bullet was fired at him.
eMalahleni mayor Lindiwe Ntshalintshali has condemned the killing of a municipal worker, saying attacking an employee of the state is the same as attacking the state.
The worker died in hospital on Monday this week.
Ntshalintshali’s office said the worker was one of four who had been sent to go fix a leaking water pipe in the eMalahleni informal settlement of Coronation on Sunday when a man pulled out a gun and shot at him.
The worker went to fetch a log which was lying nearby when one of the community member took out the gun and fire a bullet at him. He died later at hospital.
Cops swooped on and arrested the gunman.
“We will withdraw municipal employees if communities cannot guarantee their safety,” the mayor said.
“We cannot dispatch our employees to be attacked, harassed and killed by the same community they trying to assist. An attack on any government employee executing his or her duties is an attack on the state,” Ntshalintshali said.
It is still not clear whether this is part of attacks by residents who have growing dissatisfactions with the municipality.
Ntshalintshali said these have been on the increase like it occurred during recent power-cuts in the area.
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“One of the objectives of local government is to ensure the provision of services to communities,” she said.
“But these attacks, which must be stopped, will make it virtually impossible to deliver services,” Ntshalintshali continued.
“On behalf of councillors, managers and the entire staff we wish to send our condolences to the family of the deceased. We hope the family finds comfort in the knowledge that he died serving residents of Emalahleni,” she said.
(edited by MLM)
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