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TimesLIVE reports that Johannesburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda says the city will provide an additional layer of protection for investigators in the city’s Group Forensics and Investigation Services (GFIS) unit should there be a need.
He advisedthat on Tuesday after he had visited the home of forensic investigator Zenzele Benedict Sithole, who was shot dead in Joburg on Thursday while returning to his Ekurhuleni home. There have been suggestions that Sithole, who was attached to the GFIS unit, was assassinated. When asked whether he was concerned about the safety of fellow forensic investigators attached to the unit, Gwamanda confirmed that it was indeed a concern. “When you undertake a programme to create discomfort in a criminal environment, there has to be a concern with the implications. It is a concern for all our investigators. That is why we have, together with the MMC of public safety, engaged on how to assist the kind of investigations that are under way and, if there is an additional level of protection required for our officials, then we need to provide it,” Gwamanda stated. When asked if there was any protection provided for Sithole’s family, Gwamanda said the city was waiting for the police to get an understanding of the circumstances surrounding Sithole’s death, while the group forensic and investigations unit was doing a threat assessment as well.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ernest Mabuza at TimesLIVE
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