My Take: Politicians now CSI experts?
Speculation over motives is rife, to say the least.
THE Dududu mass graves find (reported in the Mail last week) now seems set to become a political hot potato.
This before anyone really knows what it’s all about.
Police and forensic detectives were apparently turned back from the site, yet national newspapers are now awash with photographs of politicians and the visionary sangoma (fondly known as ‘The Broom’) mournfully inspecting the graves.
CSI fans could be forgiven for thinking that the alleged crime scene has now been well and truly ‘contaminated’.
The ANC has called for action and even President Jacob Zuma himself has ordered Premier Senzo Mchunu to submit a report directly to him.
In the interim, speculation is rife and the descendants of the former Glenroy Farm owner are frantically trying to convince everyone that it ‘wasn’t granddad’.
One doesn’t want to be flippant about the discovery of about 100 or so mystery skeletons, but one has to wonder about motives here… not only for the deaths or killings in the ’60s and ’70s, but also for the overwhelming interest of politicians, going right to the top.
A cynic might conclude that this find has already been earmarked for some major political coup.
Gogo Bongekile Nonhlanhla Nkomo, fondly known as Mshanelo (loosely meaning ‘the broom’) blew the whistle to the provincial government (not the police), claiming that she had a ‘vision’ of people suffering on that very spot 50 or so years ago.
She is originally from Msinga!
Whether one is a ‘believer’ in the occult or not, one also has to question ‘the broom’s’ dress while explaining her vision to politicians at the grave site… green, gold and black.
There’s no disputing that something really tragic happened here and one can only appeal to politicians to let the professionals handle it and maybe then these poor souls can rest in peace.
