ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and other KwaZulu-Natal ANC leaders will campaign in Nongoma on Friday.

The leaders would also visit ANC members who were shot during a rally in the area last month, the party said on Thursday.

KwaZulu-Natal ANCYL spokesperson Bheki Mtolo said Malema would campaign in Nongoma.

"He will go there together with other provincial leaders," said Mtolo.

IFP Youth League's Thulasizwe Buthelezi last month warned Malema not to provoke IFP supporters in Zululand.

This was after Malema said he would campaign in Nongoma despite attacks on ANC supporters there during a rally.

Malema had said his party was not afraid of IFP supporters who allegedly assaulted ANC supporters, adding that the ANC would go back to Nongoma and even campaign in the backyard of IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

Addressing the media in Durban on Thursday, ANC secretary Senzo Mchunu said the party supporters would form a huge car convoy and drive to Nongoma on Friday to visit party members who were shot during a rally in the area last month.

A goodwill visit

"We will visit Nongoma tomorrow. We felt that we had to visit our comrades who got injured during the rally," said ANC provincial secretary Senzo Mchunu.

African National Congress MP and a member of the Zulu Royal family, Prince Zeblon Zulu, and his daughter-in-law Dorris Zulu were shot just minutes after they had left the rally. They both survived.

Six ANC members were severely assaulted when the buses they were travelling to the rally in were hit by stones.

There were serious tensions between Inkatha Freedom Party and ANC supporters during the rally and the ruling party blamed the IFP for the attacks. The IFP denied the accusation.

Mchunu said they had been informed that Dorris was blind in one eye because a bullet had lodged in her eye socket.

Dorris was airlifted to a Durban hospital immediately after she was shot.

Supporters also planned to visit the ANC chairperson of the Nongoma sub region Bongani Ngcobo.

He was shot the day before the rally, allegedly by an IFP councillor, in full view of his colleagues at the ANC offices.

ANC provincial chairperson Zweli Mkhize last week said his party was happy that suspects had been arrested in connection with all incidents.

"We are satisfied with the work done by the police. We think that they have handled the cases very well."