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Original Post Date: 2007-08-31 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Karen Breytenbach
Stellenbosch deputy mayor Khulile Shubani has described how he was shot in the foot during what he suspects was an attempt to murder him outside his home in Kayamandi township on Wednesday night.
Speaking from his hospital bed, where he is under police guard, in a private clinic after an operation to his shattered left heel, Shubani, 35, said he believed the attack was linked to the floor-crossing period, which opens at midnight on Friday.
The municipality and police have arranged security for Shubani in hospital and at home once he is discharged.
| ‘I didn’t think anything was wrong until I heard a couple of shots’ |
Bodyguards have also been appointed for councillor Valerie Fernandez, a DA member and the strategic services portfolio chairperson who was sent a death threat this week.
Stellenbosch Speaker Andricus van der Westhuizen said it was not clear whether the two incidents were related.
Shubani’s wife and children are also to be protected.
The UDM member said he had been sitting in a friend’s car, talking with two friends, in front of his house.
“When we finished talking I opened my door and saw a guy approaching the car. I didn’t think anything was wrong until I heard a couple of shots,” he said. “I got back into the car and out on the other side, near my front door.”
Six shots had been fired. One hit him in the left foot, shattering his heel bone. Others penetrated the car and his shack, where his wife and children were at the time.
“I ran past my house. I knew I had been hit, but I kept on running. I was hopping on one leg to a house up the road. That’s where I managed to call the police.”
The gunman, described as “a youngster”, fled, and a friend took Shubani to hospital.
Shubani said he had been expecting an attempt on his life since his appointment in March last year. It was at this time that another political party had allegedly begun pressuring him “to join them”.
ANC provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha was quick to quash allegations of ANC involvement in the attack.
“For its part, the ANC will not involve itself in reckless speculation about who carried out the shooting. Reckless and unsubstantiated allegations of this kind can only serve to inflame emotions in the community,” Skwatsha said.
Police spokesperson Randall Stoffels said a 24-year-old man from Kayamandi had been taken in for questioning on Thursday morning, but had not been charged by Thursday night.
If Shubani, a proportional representation councillor, had been killed, the next UDM member would have moved up the party list to fill his position.
In the Stellenbosch council, the DA, UDM, ACDP and Kayamandi Community Alliance coalition has 19 seats, the ANC 16 seats and the ID two.