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Durban – The hitmen who gunned down Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes, may have been paid almost R250 000 (K269,868).

This was revealed by a local taxi boss who has knowledge of professional hits.

Forbes was gunned down outside Wish Restaurant in Florida Road on February 10, alongside a friend, Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane.

To date, police have made no arrests.

Forbes was laid to rest in a private ceremony on Saturday.

There has been an outpouring of grief on social media following his death.

Many social media users are playing detectives, revealing who they think may be linked to the hit.

But a taxi boss told TimesLive that hits could range from R10 000 (K10,794) to kill an ordinary person with no bodyguards to R500 000 (K539,736).

The man, who was not named, said the “more dangerous” a person was, the more expensive the contract killing became.

The taxi boss said killing a person could take time, and a hit for a person with bodyguards could take months to execute.

To carry out the hit, the taxi boss told TimesLive, that someone had to inform the killers of AKA’s whereabouts, one person was hired to pull the trigger, and someone to drive the getaway car.

In addition, he said the hitmen who killed AKA were not amateurs.

“They shot the two people in the presence of many. An amateur would not be able to do that. These are serious hitmen,” he told TimesLive.

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 TWO women of Masaiti are living in regret after they were arrested for allegedly pouring hot water on a 79 old man leaving him with burns on his private parts and other body parts. The victim’s wife and her friend caused severe burns on John Mumba after he refused to sell part of the family […]

There was commotion at the Kasama Central Police when irate United Party for National Development (UPND) cadres manhandled police officers after they thwarted a protest.

The UPND cadres turned violent and attacked and Police Officers who stood their ground and denounced the cadres who marched to police demanding for the arrest of those peddling what they called lies against Vice-President Nalumango.

The cadres marched in protest after some named senior leaders in the UPND instructed them to stage a protest in disapproving alleged attacks on Vice President Mutale Nalumango of some scandals she was alleged to have been named in.

The irate cadres claimed there was a scheme within the UPND that had been hatched to get rid of the vice president a situation they said they would not condone.

Measuring a key blood molecule may help doctors diagnose whether or how much impaired blood flow to a patient’s brain is contributing to dementia or cognitive problems, according to a new study led by a UCLA Health researcher.

Patients with hypertension paired with a community health worker (CHW) through their primary care practice were more than three and a half times as likely to achieve blood pressure control within six months compared to patients who were not. New research, led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, suggest that similar CHW inventions could help other underserved, immigrant communities experiencing similar disparities.

The Patriotic Front party PF in Northern Province have disowned suspended member of the central committee Miles Sampa.

Speaking at a media briefing, provincial chairman Chomba Chipili said the province is not part of the schemes by Mr Sampa to destabilise the party.

He said the PF is intact in the province and urged the members to remain calm.

“The PF members in Northern Province are concerned with the happenings in the party. Our concern is what Mr Sampa is doing to the party by dragging it in the mud. He is trying to gain public sympathy, dragged the party to court and recently to the Registrar of Societies in order to be deregistered, the party he is vying to lead, ” Mr. Chipili said.

Mr Chipili said if at all Mr Sampa loved the party he should have sought audience with the leadership to iron out the differences internally instead of washing dirty line in public. 

“PF is the biggest opposition party in the country with 58 members of parliament  and if deregistered,  the country will experience by elections, in this respect we as northern province PF distance ourselves from what Mr  Sampa is doing and support the stance that will be taken by the party leadership,” he said.

Researchers found over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, is ineffective on its own to treat backache.

“This method provides scientists a new means to trigger and simultaneously observe the dynamic changes in the protein as it transitions from good to bad,” biochemist Daniel Morse from UCSB said.

Garry Nkombo has accused the Patriotic Front (PF) of illegally running the UPND government through the backdoor by allegedly accessing classified information from government systems and using it against the new dawn administration.

Early estimates suggest the flu vaccine performed well in a U.S. winter flu season that has already dissipated.