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Two mass shootings in KZN claimed 14 lives in a space of 24 hours in mid-January, something Police Minister Bheki Cele says isn’t normal

Police Minister Bheki Cele provides updates on recent mass killings in KZN.

Drug-related retaliations and revenge killings are the leading cause of multiple killings in KwaZulu-Natal, claiming the lives of 531 people in 229 incidents since April last year.

There have been 229 mass shootings in KwaZulu-Natal over the past 10 months.

Minister Bheki Cele addressed the media at the Durban central police station on Wednesday afternoon.

Drug-related retaliations and revenge killings are the leading cause of multiple killings in KwaZulu-Natal, claiming the lives of 531 people in 229 incidents since April last year.

Police Minister Bheki Cele will be joined by Provincial Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi to give an update on the progress made in investigating these cases.

At least eight councillors in the eThekwini municipality are under 24-hour security protection for the next three months after receiving death threats. 



At least eight councillors in the eThekwini municipality are under 24-hour security protection for the next three months after receiving death threats.  This was confirmed by the eThekwini municipality speaker Thabani Nyawose, who, on Wednesday told News24 that the eight councillors, who cannot be named at this point as investigations into the threats were still under way, had all opened cases with their local police stations. The cases were being attended to by crime intelligence in the pr...

"The police ministry and SAPS management ... will not sit back and allow the province of KwaZulu-Natal to be once again turned into a battlefield. As such, we are working hard to ensure that KZN is not turned into a killing field," Police Minister Bheki Cele says.