DEPUTY Safety and Security Minister Susan Shabangu’s controversial “shoot to kill” comment has received African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma’s backing. Speaking at a gala dinner in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday night, Zuma said: “If you have a deputy minister saying the kind of things that the deputy minister was saying, this is what we need to happen. What the deputy minister was saying is, what we are to be doing is dealing with the criminals, rather than talking about it,” said Zuma. Shabangu told an anticrime rally in Pretoria last week that police should “kill the bastards” and leave concerns about the regulations to her.

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