According to Judge Willem Heath, the police deliberately tried to sabotage their investigation into the murder/assisted suicide of Brett Kebble.

Does this come as a shock to anyone? It certainly doesn’t to me!

Heath who was hired by Kebble’s father wrote the report about a year after Kebble was gunned down. In the report he lists a number of examples where the police were more than just shoddy.

According to Heath, the police did not secure the crime scene - a primary responsibility of the police. Even a kid could tell you that from watching all those US police dramas.

Secondly they only got around to interviewing witnesses a YEAR after the murder! This is unacceptable. Everyone knows that it is vitally important to interview witnesses as close to the time of the crime as possible! People’s memories change over time and it also gives an opportunity for such things as bribes, threats and intimidation to take place.

Thirdly they failed to do a proper forensics investigation on the car in which Kebble was shot. I seem to remember that colleagues of Kebble (now some are suspects) were allowed to tow the car away themselves. Why would the police allow this to happen? It seems to echo the Inge Lotz trial where the vital DVD cover was conveniently handed back to the video rental store.

There are a number of reasons why this all happens:

1) Corrupt police

Could the police have been paid off in these circumstances in order to set up another failure in court? If they botch the investigation and evidence, the defence team would have a field day poking holes in everything and providing good reasonable doubt.

2) Unprofessional police
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Dear Mr Zuma,

Given some of the stuff written lately, one can’t blame you for being sceptical about anything from the Fourth Estate. But the national mood is so dismal, that I hope you’ll replace prejudices with a generosity of spirit by reflecting on what follows.

Neither of us should have been surprised that yesterday’s TNS survey on corruption painted a bleak picture. But to read that 90% of South Africans believe corruption has become a way of life in our country must have come as a shock even to one who interacts regularly with ordinary citizens, as you do.

It’s just perceptions, I told myself. Things can’t be that bad.

Then I started replaying things in my mind. And remembered how just last night my teenage daughter told of an acquaintance who was so drunk after a night out that he forgot to take off a ballet tutu he was wearing. On his one-eyed weave home, the tutu-wearing drunk was pulled over by a SAPS officer.

But there was no night in jail and an embarrassing court case for this accident-waiting-to-happen. My daughter says the lad’s only complaint was that because he was so smashed this time, it cost R600 to bribe the boy in blue. Much more, he bragged, than he usually had to fork out.

That also got me thinking again about the Glenn Agliotti affidavits.

Remember, those sworn statements signed by the self-confessed gangster and “friend, finished and klaar” of our crooked SAPS Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Just in case they’ve been kept from you, the affidavits are at the bottom of this page.

They are morbidly fascinating, reading like a sick novel.

In his effort to cut a deal, Agliotti now doesn’t seem to know what he believes nowadays. But his affidavits are so specific and obvious that there can be no doubting the veracity of much which emerges from his gut-spilling. It might even have been an addendum to economist Steven Levitt’s Freakonomics where the New Yorker delved into the criminal world to see what made the underclass tick. Insights that are similarly obvious in Agliotti’s contributions.
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Isn’t it funny how the politicians get themselves in a knot because convicted killer, Van Schalkwyk, was included in the Puma’s team when most of those same politicians are convicted criminals themselves!

If they weren’t blowing up innocent people in the name of the struggle back in the day, they have been involved in some dodgy things now - like the travelgate saga for one!

Now it appears that the government is going to stop all pending actions against those found guilty in the Travelgate scandal and that they also agreed to pay the legal costs incurred by MPs who challenged their alleged debts in court.

According to Friday’s Gazette, the Bathong creditors would meet on May 23 to adopt the following resolutions:

# “That the liquidators are hereby directed not to pursue any action as against the various members of Parliament in relation to the un-invoiced tickets, levies and/or services.”

# “That the liquidators are hereby directed to cease all other litigation as against the members of Parliament in relation to all ‘vouchers’ that may have been utilised by Bathong Travel (Pty) Ltd or its directors or shareholders.”

So it seems that the government is now going to cover up the crimes of the guilty parliamentarians and pretty much use its power to thwart any prosecutions. This is the most ‘in your face’ thing I have ever seen this corrupt government doing. How can they justify protecting and AIDING criminals??? How can they get away with it???

I am outraged at this and so should you be!