Published date
10 February 1988
Ms Pearl Tshabalala, a prominent businesswoman and member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Clermont, Durban, who had resisted moves to incorporate Clermont into the KwaZulu homeland state, was fatally shot. This was allegedly done by Caprivi trainees led by Daluxolo Luthuli. Luthuli acted on instruction from Samuel Jamile, former deputy minister of the KwaZulu government.
After receiving instructions from Jamile, Luthuli set up a group of four men composed of Caprivi trainees, amongst them Alex Sosha Khumalo and David Zweli Dlamini, to help him execute Jamile's order. Msizi Hlope was ordered by Jamile to guide the group, as they were not familiar with Clermont. Tshabalala was shot in front of her five-year-old child as she was leaving her business in Clermont.
The first botched attempt on Tshabalala's life was made in 1987 when several shots were fired at her moving vehicle outside her business premises in Clermont. She was the wife of Vuka Tshabalala who served in the same Clermont Advisory Board as Jamile.
After receiving instructions from Jamile, Luthuli set up a group of four men composed of Caprivi trainees, amongst them Alex Sosha Khumalo and David Zweli Dlamini, to help him execute Jamile's order. Msizi Hlope was ordered by Jamile to guide the group, as they were not familiar with Clermont. Tshabalala was shot in front of her five-year-old child as she was leaving her business in Clermont.
The first botched attempt on Tshabalala's life was made in 1987 when several shots were fired at her moving vehicle outside her business premises in Clermont. She was the wife of Vuka Tshabalala who served in the same Clermont Advisory Board as Jamile.
References
Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg : Human Rights Committee, p. 249.