There have been recent politically-motivated killings and shootings against the black center-right in South Africa, more specifically in KwaZulu-Natal where there is a black center-right stronghold. The most recent incident involved a member of the center-rightist Inkatha Freedom Party who was murdered by a leftist outside a courthouse in broad daylight, in front of TV camera crews and the police. Thus, the IFP is understandably on edge right now. From AFP (France): "South Africa's Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) on Friday
said it has unearthed a plot to assassinate its leader Mangosuthu
Buthelezi. Blessed Gwala, an IFP lawmaker in the southeastern
KwaZulu-Natal province, said security around Buthelezi has been trimmed,
a move the party says is intended to expose him to attacks. Buthelezi served several times as acting president under Nelson Mandela. 'There
is a plot to assassinate Dr. Mangosuthu Buthelezi from the higher
echelons of the country, including poisoning him,' Gwala told AFP."
The article continues about the IFP's assassination claim: "He
claimed that South African authorities have reduced security apparatus
around Buthelezi, leaving him with just two unarmed policemen who do not
have a car. 'He has been stripped of his security so that he will
vulnerable, so that when attacks come it will be easy to assassinate
him,' Gwala said. 'The grand plan is clear: It's to remove IFP
from the political radar so that they will be a unitary state in this
country,' he said, inferring the ruling African National Congress (ANC),
was behind the plot."
The ANC denies the IFP's claim: "'We
are not a thuggish organisation. We are a respectful organisation who
works within the laws of this country. We have no intentions of
assassinating anybody,' party spokesman Jackson Mthembu said."
