(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121012-anc-supporters-jsw-9a.photoblog600.jpg)Rogan Ward / ReutersAfrican National Congress supporters leave the Durban Magistrates Court, where a man accused of murdering ANC councilor Mthembeni Shezi appeared Thursday for his trial.By ReutersWELBEDACHT, South Africa -- Mthembeni Shezi, a local African National Congress councilor in the run-down suburb of Welbedacht on South Africa's east coast, was wrapping up a routine meeting last month when two men barged in, sprayed the room with gunfire and shot him five times in the chest.
"It was like a movie. The men just shot indiscriminately. It was scary. Everyone panicked. We hit the floor. I didn't think I would come out of there alive," said one woman present, who remains too frightened to reveal her name.
"The gunmen seemed to know who they wanted," she said said.
Far from being a movie, the hit represents the bloody reality of local politics for some in the African National Congress (ANC), and shows how far Nelson Mandela's 100-year-old liberation movement has strayed from the moral high ground it occupied when it came to power 18 years ago.
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Its always going to happen with time, this is Africa where dirty politics is the order of the day.