/ 5 October 2001

EDITOR OF SWAZI PAPER GUNNED DOWN

SANDILE Nthsakala, editor of the Swazi Observer was killed in Mbuleni near Manzini on the early hours of Monday morning after working through the Monday edition of newspaper. Nthsakala who has been the editor of the Swazi Observer for about 4 months was visiting a friend and was in the company of a colleague Bongani Mtshali. The motive behind his killing is still unknown, except that two trigger-happy drunken thugs were standing in the road and decided to open fire when Nthsakala’s car approached. – Misanet