The Blatant Bribery Attempt That Backfired: Has Corruption Become Normalised?

The single greatest threat to corruption is a courageous human being.
I have learnt this from two decades as a forensic investigator, fighting corruption and fraud every day.
Yet tragically, South Africa’s recent past is peppered with far too many courageous people who have paid the ultimate price for their determination to expose the truth. The most recent of these happened just last week, with the cold-blooded assassination of Marius 'Vlam' van der Merwe, suspected to be due to the testimony he gave at the Madlanga Commission.
According to news reports, Van der Merwe, 41, told the commission that suspended Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department acting chief, Brigadier Julius Mkhwanazi, allegedly ordered him to dump the body of a suspect killed by EMPD officers in a bid to cover up a murder.
It may be this testimony that cost him his life. He was shot multiple times in front of his family outside their Brakpan home last Friday night.

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