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[FROM THE ARCHIVES] KwaZulu-Natal Killing Fields

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23 June
๐—ง๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ ๐—๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿญ. With political position comes the power to dispense patronage. But the position now also comes with a target on the backs of KwaZulu-Natalโ€™s iziNduna. Since January 2019, at least 27 iziNduna have been assassinated in cold blood, while several others have only narrowly escaped death. Carte Blanche sits down with a devastated widow as she details the threats and intimidation that haunted her husband before his brutal slaying. A reformed inkabi โ€“ or hitman-for-hire โ€“ reveals the political machinations and greed that feed the execution-style hits in a province where life is cheap and illegal guns plentiful.