President Cyril Ramaphosa dedicated his weekly newsletter on Monday to the assassination of Babita Deokaran, a senior finance official in the Gauteng health department and whistle-blower.

He said her murder “is a stark reminder of the high stakes involved in our collective quest to remove this cancer [of corruption] from our society”, and that she was “a hero and a patriot”, before mapping out all the steps his government was taking to protect those who spoke out against “misdeeds, maladministration, cronyism and theft”...

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