ANC Official, 13 Others Slain in South Africa
Black factional violence killed 14 people across South Africa, including a regional official of the African National Congress, police said Sunday.
The ANC official, Sikhumbuzo Ngwenya, was shot to death late Saturday as he left a restaurant in Pietermaritzburg, police and the ANC said. Ngwenya was an ANC leader in the black township of Imbali outside the city.
Imbali has been the scene of intense fighting recently between supporters of the ANC and the rival Inkatha Freedom Party, the two leading black political groups.
An attack on an Inkatha leader in Imbali earlier this month left three children dead.
Police said six people died during fighting overnight in the Johannesburg township of Soweto.
It was not clear what sparked the fight, which involved Soweto residents and men living in a nearby hostel for migrant workers, most of them Inkatha supporters.
Four members of a family also died when their van was shot up outside Pietermaritzburg, and three people died in separate incidents elsewhere in Natal, police said.
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