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A high-ranking South African police officer, Lieutenant General Sindile Mfazi, was secretly warned of an assassination plot in December 2020 — but his death seven months later was hastily blamed on COVID-19. His widow, Lindelwa, refused to accept the official story, pushing for an exhumation that revealed he’d been poisoned. New evidence presented to parliament shows Mfazi was investigating deep corruption, including a secret multimillion-rand fund and the controversial Phala Phala farm burglary. Now, after years of stalled investigations, police are launching a murder probe into his death, executing search warrants without arrests — all while grappling with whether the poisoning was intentional or accidental. His relentless pursuit of systemic corruption — from pandemic PPE procurement to critical police system failures — underscores a tragic battle against entrenched rot within SAPS, raising urgent questions about accountability and justice.

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