IT WAS one of the most shocking murders the country had seen in a long time. Senzo Meyiwa, the captain of Bafana Bafana and boyfriend of a well-known singer, was gunned down in the home of his girlfriend’s mother. The slaying made international headlines and the authorities vowed to do whatever it took to bring the perpetrators to book.
But the wheels of justice can move slowly – and in this instance, they’ve not only crept at a snail’s pace but moved so controversially that the Senzo case is seen as an example of everything that’s going wrong in the SA legal system. Suspects have been arrested and released, lawyers fired and hired and even the judge replaced.
THE BACKGROUND
It’s been nearly nine
