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Thuli Madonsela, now a professor specialising in human rights at the University of Stellenbosch, recently said the victims of the Wilgenhof residence must be respected and remembered.
Can she please provide a list of the victims and the degree of harm they suffered? Such a list has not been forthcoming for months from the university.
Also, why did she in her previous role as public protector not investigate Xhosa initiation deaths, in which since 1994 hundreds of young men near student age have died and thousands were, and still are, seriously injured and maimed, all unnecessarily?
Was that failure not a dereliction of duty as public protector?
Jan Buurman Cape Town
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LETTER: Wilgenhof details needed
Thuli Madonsela, now a professor specialising in human rights at the University of Stellenbosch, recently said the victims of the Wilgenhof residence must be respected and remembered.
Can she please provide a list of the victims and the degree of harm they suffered? Such a list has not been forthcoming for months from the university.
Also, why did she in her previous role as public protector not investigate Xhosa initiation deaths, in which since 1994 hundreds of young men near student age have died and thousands were, and still are, seriously injured and maimed, all unnecessarily?
Was that failure not a dereliction of duty as public protector?
Jan Buurman
Cape Town
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
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