We Are Paying With Lives

On 30 March this year, Emfuleni municipality finance official and mother-of-one, Martha Rantsofu, was shot dead outside a tyre shop. In broad daylight, and just metres from a police station. She was 39 years old.
As a country, we are sadly all too familiar with shocking news like this, but Martha’s murder wasn’t “just” another random killing.
Despite Emfuleni spokesperson Makhosonke Sangweni denying Rantsofu was a whistleblower, Klippies Kritzinger, CEO of Vaal Business Corporation, said she told him she had uncovered fraudulent payments, procurement irregularities, missing municipal funds, and allegations of officials erasing debt in exchange for bribes.
The Political Killings Task Team is now investigating her murder, which adds weight to the widely-held belief that she was murdered because she was a whistleblower.
As I write, and despite mounting calls for the swift arrests of those responsible, none have yet been made. News reports quote the police as saying, “a high-level investigation is underway,” but that the official motive for Martha’s murder remains unclear.

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