EDITORIAL | No arrests for killings of environmental activists is indefensible

The state cannot sit by while people are threatened and murdered for fighting for their beliefs

21 October 2021 - 19:57

Exactly a year ago, Fikile Ntshangase’s life was brutally snuffed out inside her northern KwaZulu-Natal home. As she spoke to her best friend on the phone, with him playing her a new gospel song he thought she would enjoy, gunmen walked into the house. Six bullets were fired and the “feisty” Ntshangase was dead...

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