Busisiwe Mkhwebane pulls Bheki Cele and police up short over failure to protect whistle-blowers
The public protector gave the police minister and the police seven days to provide security to two men who blew the whistle on corruption and murder in KwaZulu-Natal
A report by public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has found police minister Bheki Cele and the police were grossly negligent in failing to provide protection to whistle-blowers on corruption and police killings in KwaZulu-Natal.In a report dated August 10‚ Mkhwebane found that Cele and the police’s failure to protect two men who blew the whistle on corruption — which they claimed was behind the murder of former ANC Youth League secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa — could have resulted in the assassination of the two men.The whistle-blowers‚ Thabiso Zulu and Les Stuta‚ testified before the Moerane commission of inquiry into political killings in KwaZulu-Natal in November last year.In their testimony‚ they claimed Magaqa had passed documentation on to the Hawks that allegedly proved corruption in the tender for upgrading Umzimkhulu Memorial Hall‚ which ballooned from R4m to R37m. Following death threats and a lack of action from the police‚ Zulu sought the intervention of the public protec...
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