Overview
- Two separate attacks on Saturday, October 10, in KwaMsane and Eshowe left six people dead and one wounded, according to police and local reports.
- Police say an off‑duty constable allegedly opened fire at a tavern in the Nkodibe area of KwaMsane, killing three women, wounding a man, and reportedly turning a weapon on himself; officers recovered two firearms at the scene.
- Hours later a former store employee is accused of producing a firearm during an internal disciplinary hearing in Eshowe and killing three people before fleeing; a manhunt for the suspect is under way.
- Investigations are ongoing with murder and inquest dockets opened, forensic work planned on the recovered guns, and motives for both shootings still unconfirmed by authorities.
- The incidents add to a string of recent tavern and weekend mass shootings in the province that have prompted presidential condemnation and renewed calls for tighter illegal‑firearm controls, better ballistics tracing, and faster crime‑intelligence responses.