Slain taxi boss 'an IFP member'
2004-03-30 08:44
Durban - KwaZulu-Natal taxi boss Xolani Sibisi who was found dead on Sunday morning was a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and "played a sterling role in organising voter transportation for the party," the IFP said on Monday.
He was chair of the Inanda Taxi Association and opposed to the government's taxi re-capitalisation programme, the party said.
"I hope Mr Sibisi's death was not in any way linked to state-sponsored violence or a 'third force', such as the kind that flourished in the apartheid era," said IFP national organiser Albert Mncwango.
Sibisi was last seen on Saturday night at the Inanda tank and his body was found in the Inanda area with a gunshot wound to the head, police said.
Mncwango said: "He led a delegation of his entire executive to meet the president of the IFP, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, in Ulundi to express his opposition (to the taxi re-capitalisation project)."
Sibisi was also known as Ebrahim and had recently converted to the Islamic faith, police said.
- SAPA