An urgent need to act against murderous politics
If the state does not convict killers, our elections will be set amid funerals
17 October 2021 - 00:03
It’s now the same story with every local government election. In the period running up to the polls, a councillor candidate is shot dead in a suspected intra-party power struggle...
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