ANC Youth League Limpopo leader in serious condition after shooting

15 September 2014 - 11:19 By Sapa
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ANC Youth League Limpopo leader Boy Mamabolo and three others have been wounded in a shooting in Polokwane, Limpopo police said on Monday.

"Mamabolo is in a serious condition in a provincial hospital," said Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi.

"The three others were treated at hospital and released. According to information they were Mamabolo's friends."

Mulaudzi said the incident happened at around 9pm on Sunday at a Metro FM event at Waterworld. He dismissed a report that it happened in a nightclub.

"The victims were shot at by the suspect. We managed to get statements from witnesses. We know who the suspect is and we are looking for him," he said.

"Hopefully he will decide to hand himself over to police."

Mamabolo is a former friend of Julius Malema, who was sacked as president of the African National Congress Youth League, and became leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters.

Mamabolo faces 72 fraud charges related to his chairmanship of the Limpopo Geograhical Names Committee.

He was also embroiled in a court battle with Malema last year over a threatening text message he allegedly sent to Malema.

In the SMS, Mamabolo allegedly wrote that he would exhume the body of Malema's mother and take her remains to Malema's grandmother's home in Seshego.

This was apparently in retaliation for Malema allegedly sending his allies to seduce Mamabolo's girlfriend.

But the crimen injuria case against Mambolo was provisionally struck off the court roll last year.

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