VIDEO: Activist, Loyiso Nkohla, was shot dead in Cape Town where he was attending community meeting

Activist Loyiso Nkohla was shot dead in Cape Town where he was attending community meeting. Two women and a man were injured. (Read More Here).

That’s according to Nkohla’s former colleague and friend, Muhammad Khalid Sayed.

He was murdered in Philippi on Monday.

Nkohla and Sayed became close friends during their time together as African National Congress (ANC) Youth League members. Community activist Mbulelo Dwane, who expressed shock at the hit on Nkohla, said he was with him in Gugulethu where they had breakfast an hour before he was gunned down. (Read More Here).

“We met in a place in Gugulethu and discussed a few things about the Chippa Protection Services debacle and were briefing each other, as he had been out of Cape Town to bury his mother in the Eastern Cape,” he said.

Dwane said Nkohla also had a contract with Prasa to clean the Central line. He also was in the meat supply and construction business, he said.

Sayed is still an ANC member but Nkohla, who also led the Ses’khona People’s Rights Movement, and was once in the Democratic Alliance (DA), went on to join the Patriotic Alliance (PA).

Sayed visited the scene where his friend was killed and said that Nkohla was working to ensure rail safety in the Philippi area.

“He was doing community facilitation, trying to obviously engage the communities around the safe running of the lines, the different train lines, so he could have been there to engage around that.”

At the time of his death, Nkohla was the community liaison officer for the Siyahlala, Khayelitsha and Philippi communities who had occupied the Prasa railway lines on the Central line.

He recently led a protest by these occupants in which they demanded mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis work with the provincial Department of Public Works, Prasa and the National Department of Public Works to expedite the relocation project after it was marred by delays.

Nkohla gained prominence in 2013, when he led protests for flushable toilets together with ANC member Andile Lili under the banner of the Ses’khona People’s Rights Movement, who dumped buckets of human faeces at Cape Town International Airport. The two were among five arrested.

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