South Africa: The region where political violence is on the rise ahead of elections - BBC News

The BBC's Fergal Keane returns ahead of elections next year - 30 years since apartheid ended.

16 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, Lindeni Lombo stands with a poster of her murdered sonBy Fergal KeaneBBC NewsThirty years after the transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa, Fergal Keane returns to a country experiencing increasing political violence in a key region to see what happened to the hopes and promises of a better nation.

Thembinkosi Lombo may not have known the man who gunned him down - but he may well have known the person who ordered the hit.

The 35-year-old local councillor from South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) was shot dead in Greytown in the eastern coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal last year.

He left behind a wife and nine children - the youngest at just two months old.

His mother Lindeni Lombo, 75, tells us she believes the assassination was an inside job.

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