ROB ROSE: The shame of Mapisa-Nqakula and the Khosa whitewash
For a defence force inquiry to have so lamentably failed to do its job in the case of the death of Collins Khosa, and for the minister to have tacitly sanctioned it, shows just how ill-equipped they are to serve in our democracy’s government
01 June 2020 - 06:00
In refusing to distance herself from the shameful whitewash presented by an SA National Defence Force (SANDF) “board of inquiry” into the death of Collins Khosa, defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has taken a high-stakes gamble. As anger mounts, it’s a political gamble that may just backfire on her.
Khosa has been the highest-profile victim of army brutality during the Covid-19 lockdown. He died of “blunt force head injury,” accompanied by haemorrhaging in the brain, an inquest found, hours after being assaulted by soldiers on Good Friday...
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