KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Picture: Nigel Sibanda This year is clearly the year of the whistle-blower. There are years when choosing a Newsmaker of the Year is the easiest thing to do – and 2025 is one of those years.
No-one can argue against the fact that locally, KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is the SA Newsmaker of the Year, and internationally it must be US president Donald Trump. And for totally different reasons: Mkhwanazi for attempting to fix SA while Trump made news for throwing the whole globe into a tailspin. A closer look into how Mkhwanazi set the local news cycle ablaze might reveal another person who should easily join him in being SA’s 2025 Newsmaker of the Year: Babita Deokaran.
When she was killed on 23 August in 2021, little did she or the country know she would posthumously prove be the central figure in a narrative that has proven to be what might destroy or define the future of this country. In his book,The Shadow State: Why Babita Deokaran Had To Die, Jeff Wicks goes into some detail about how Deokaran’s brother did everything to ensure her soul is well-catered for following her death as per the requirements of their Hindu religion. His actions were done to ensure that her spirit transitions from this world into the next peacefully.
Read Full Article on The Citizen
[paywall]
As with most religions, Hinduism dictates that a person’s soul or spirit lives on beyond their death. When a person who has died in a violent manner like Deokaran, Karmic justice is believed to come into play, ensuring that her killers do not find peace. When Mkhwanazi stood before the nation on 6 July, to reveal there are cartels that have infiltrated the police and judiciary and are in cahoots with powerful politicians to ensure that they never face justice and their activities go on unhindered, most of the country did not realise it was in the pursuit of, among others, the killers of Deokaran and that the police found links between criminal syndicates and corrupt Saps officials.
[/paywall]
