Weekly Mail Reporter
A SINGLE death last week represents the lowest death toll from “political violence” recorded by the Human Rights Committee in the PWV since February last year.
The HRC said that for the week ending last Tuesday it had recorded one death and one injury in the PWV: the death of a white construction worker shot in Katlehong on the East Rand by youths who had asked him for a job, and a woman wounded in Heidelberg when a motorist fired at her.
But the HRC noted that three deaths and 35 injuries countrywide had occured during industrial disputes. The national death toll in political and industrial violence was down to 16, three lower than in the previous week.
In kwaZulu/Natal there were 12 deaths and nine injuries. They included five ANC supporters killed in Esikhawini on the night the mini-series The Line was screened, and one death and six injuries in Impendle when the homes of Inkatha Freedom Party supporters were attacked.