The local government election race in KwaZulu-Natal continues to be deadly with the killing of an ANC ward candidate on Saturday.The party said yesterday the gunning down of Thembi Mbongo, 35, a candidate for Ward 6 outside Osizweni was an orchestrated campaign to derail the ANC in Newcastle and Amajuba."This has nothing to do with candidate lists or choices. This area is not even hotly contested. This is about derailing the party's victory in a ward that is already an ANC ward," the party's regional secretary Ntokozo Mhlungu said.Mbongo's killing comes less than two months after ANC Youth League deputy regional chairman Wandile Ngubeni was gunned down in Madadeni in the same district.Mhlungu said Mbongo had not reported any threats on her life."It was a cold-blooded assassination. She was preparing a meal for her family when two men arrived at her house asking to talk to her. She left the kitchen to see them when one of them shot her four times in front of her children and husband," Mhlungu said.ANC provincial secretary Super Zuma said yesterday the party was deeply concerned about the killing of its ward candidates."We are very devastated and shocked at the senseless killing of comrade Thembi, who was going to represent her community as their public servant. This is a tragic loss for her family, her community and the ANC," said Zuma.He believed her killing was an orchestrated campaign to derail the ANC from "an overwhelming victory" in the area.Less than a month ago President Jacob Zuma lashed out at those who took part in political violence.He was speaking at the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal manifesto launch in Pietermaritzburg, about 5km from Imbali township, where, since June 1, four ANC leaders have been killed. At least two of the deaths are suspected to be linked to internal squabbles...