Will ‘suicides’ silence further exposés on alleged apartheid-era paedophile ring?
A bullet wound to the head: that is the common denominator linking alleged suicides three decades apart that silenced three people with intimate knowledge of an alleged apartheid-era paedophile ring, extending to the highest echelons of government in SA. Mark Minnie‚ former police officer and co-author of The Lost Boys of Bird Island‚ was found with a gunshot wound to the head at a smallholding on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth on Monday. He was investigating new leads after publication of the book‚ which identified former defence minister Magnus Malan as being part of a paedophile network that preyed on young boys at Bird Island, in Algoa Bay near Port Elizabeth during the 1980s.
A trawl through the Sunday Times archives reveals similarities in the way Minnie died — his death is initially being treated as a suicide — and the deaths in 1987 of two key characters implicated in the book. In at least two of the three apparent suicides‚ people close to the victims said they would...
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