CORRUPTION UNDERLYING WANDILE BOZWANA’S ASSASSINATION
Wandile Bozwana , a businessman from North West province died in a hail of bullets in Pretoria.
Why did he die at the hands of an assassin? According to media reports he courted danger over the years because of alleged tender rigging and alleged corrupt business practices. In an interview he gave before his death, he himself contended that there was an enormous fight going on between those inside government and those outside of it to get tenders. In his estimation, people in government received more tenders than people like himself. Regulations did not matter. The size of the tender pie depended on seniority in government: the higher up the ladder, the bigger the slice.
The dominant lion had to eat first and eat to its full.
As the fight for tenders developed, court battles raged between Bozwana and the North West government. These battles provide the context in which this assassination should be understood. Corruption exacted its toll.