The murder of Mtubatuba councillor Philip Mkhwanazi was met with shock and sadness by colleagues and comrades on Monday.
"Reports received by the department indicate that Cllr Mkhwanazi died this morning in a hail of bullets fired by unknown assailants when he was outside his house in Khula Village near St Lucia," said KwaZulu-Natal's MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Sipho Hlomuka.
Sowetan Live reported that Mkhwanazi was the induna of Khula village in the Dukuduku reserve, 5km outside St Lucia in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
"The murder of a public representative is tantamount to subversion of democracy because councillors are servants of the people elected directly by the people," said Hlomuka, who urged anybody who knows anything about the murder to give the information to the police.
The ANC Far North region also expressed its shock at Mkhwanazi's murder.
