News24 Picks Up Mbeki Bodyguard Story

Nearly two weeks after the murder of Mbeki’s bodyguard, Captain Francois Ramashile, News24 has finally done a follow-up to the story. As many of you know, I wrote an article about the incident last week and, more specifically, about how it had received rather poor press coverage.

We’re not given much in terms of new information, except that the possibility of a hit has still not been ruled out. The fact that the story has made it back into the media does however mean that we may be getting some more answers in the near future.

Although I’m really pleased that the story’s been featured, I’d just like to point out a small detail: the title of the article is “Mbeki’s Bodyguard Executed?” We all know he wasn’t executed. What we’d really like to know is whether or not he was assassinated. He may have been killed execution-style, but he was not executed. Executed is when you get lined-up against a wall with a blindfold on and a bunch of rifles pointed at you. Usually because you did something that people didn’t like.