The commission, chaired by Advocate Marumo Moerane, was appointed in 2016 as a response to the rise in politically-linked killings in the run-up to the 2016 government elections.
The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal is set to brief the media on Wednesday, 26 September 2018, on the recommendations made in the Moerane Commission report looking into political killings in the province.
On Thursday, 20 September 2018, KZN Premier Willies Mchunu tabled the 423-page document before the provincial legislature in Pietermaritzburg.
The commission, chaired by Advocate Marumo Moerane, was appointed in 2016 as a response to the rise in politically-linked killings ahead of the local government elections.
Among the recommendations is that political parties need to accept collective responsibility for the competitiveness which exists between its members for positions and power.
Mchunu said they would ensure that the recommendations are considered.
“As provincial government we will go to all the relevant stakeholders and deal with every single recommendation. These are professional independent people who put this report together and we plan to address all they have said”, he said.
The premier said that the commissioners Moerane, Vasu Gounden and Professor Cheryl Potgieter, had found weaknesses within the provincial justice system, which inevitably affects the handling of such cases.
“This obviously hampers the prevention and resolving of cases related to political murders,” he said.
“The recruitment of criminal elements by politicians to achieve political ends, resulting in a complex matrix of criminal and political associations, inevitably contributes to political murders.”
The commission heard from over 60 witnesses as well as evidence on murders at the notorious Glebelands Hostel in Durban, where more than 110 people have been killed in gun violence since 2015.
