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ANC Port St Johns Local Municipality chief whip Xolile Moni and his five-year-old child had to run for their lives after gunmen opened fire on their home before it was set alight.
Co-operative governance MEC Zolile Williams has called for urgent police intervention after a spate of attacks on councillors in the province, with the latest incident on Sunday leaving a Port St Johns councillor’s nephew wounded. Williams said his proposed meeting with provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Nomthetheleli Mene this week would discuss a “responsive security plan to deal with this growing trend of violence against elected public officials at local government level, especi.