DA Condolences for “Cold Blooded” Murders in the Northern Cape

In an ongoing campaign to highlight the devastating violent crime rate in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has issued two statements Monday morning expressing their condolences on the fatal shooting of the Richmond Deputy Mayor, and the “cold blooded murder of a city doctor” in Kimberley.

Dr Nuuman Saheb, a local doctor stationed at Kimberley Hospital, was allegedly shot dead during an armed robbery at his house in Monuments Heights last night.

The DA said: “This is not the first attack on a Kimberley medical professional. In recent years, there has been a growing number of vicious attacks on local doctors. This should concern us all.”

DA Northern Cape Spokesperson Melinda Hattingh said the province can “ill-afford to lose doctors to violent crime” and that there’s an urgent need for their safety, and that of everyone else, to be ensured and for SAPS to be able to perform their functions to keep everyone safe.

Meanwhile in Richmond, Deputy Mayor Thandazile Phoswa was also reportedly shot dead last night.

Last month Richmond Municipal Manager Sibusiso Sithole was killed.

The DA said: “We condemn this violence that is inevitably compromising the delivery of services to the people.”

The DA has been on a crusade in recent weeks to highlight the murders, particularly rural murders, in South Africa and call for Rural Safety Units and improved safety which, they say, is “critically important to food security, job security, and sustainable agricultural growth” of the country.

Today the DA will be picketing outside the Balfour Magistrates Court for urgent Rural Safety interventions, as four suspects appear for the murder of four family members in Mpumalanga.