Uyinene Mrwetyana's killer: Post Office knew about him

Security flagged 300 suspect workers, but nothing was done

08 September 2019 - 00:07 By QAANITAH HUNTER, PHILANI NOMBEMBE, ARON HYMAN, TANYA FARBER and SIPOKAZI FOKAZI

Post Office bosses knew for more than a year that Uyinene Mrwetyana's self-confessed killer was a convicted criminal, but ignored an intelligence report that may have prevented her death if they had acted on it...

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