FILE PHOTO: Loyiso Nkohla has been pictured in various political party regalia over the years, has ben shot dead in Philippi Train Station. PICTURE: The Citizen
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0 CAPE TOWN: The man once dubbed the “poo thrower in chief”, Loyiso Nkohla, has been shot dead in Philippi Train Station.
Mr Loyiso Nkohla, the former leader of Ses’khona People’s Rights Movement rose to national prominence around 2013, when he led the unconventional “poo protests”, transporting portable toilets from informal settlements and dumping their contents at key landmarks around the city, including Cape Town International Airport.
It is reported that Mr Nkohla had been addressing a meeting in Philippi when he was shot dead. Some ANC leaders, including former provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha have just arrived on the scene.
Mr Nkohla, a former City of Cape Town councillor, had been with another former ANC councillor Thembinkosi Pupa who had also been shot and rushed to hospital. They had been there to engage with shack dwellers, on behalf of Prasa, who had been occupying the train station.
He will forever be remembered for the 2013 protest where he gained himself the name “poo thrower.” He led a protest with Andile Lili through Seskhona People’s Movement.
At the time, he claimed this was to highlight poor sanitation in informal settlements while Cape Town enjoyed raving reviews as a world-class city. His party at the time, the ANC expelled him as a result of the protests.
Mr Nkohla then formed the Land Party to contest the national elections in 2019. He quit the party a few months after an ultimately unsuccessful electoral contest.
He later worked with then DA mayor Mr Patricia de Lille and was rewarded with a job at the city of Cape Town, but left a few years later after falling out with the party’s then national leadership.
Mr Nkohla started becoming politically active as a student activist at Matomela High School in Peddie, Eastern Cape, in a location called Gcinisa. He soon joined the ANC Youth League.
During his early youth in the early 1990s, Mr Nkohla would attend political meetings at Duncan Village in East London at the height of negotiation tension between the governing National Party, the ANC and other political organisations.
He has since campaigned for three other parties, the latest being the Patriotic Alliance (PA), where he is contesting as a councillor in the Cape Town metro.
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