Six years later, hit-and-run death of army whistleblower still a mystery

Dead officer from Pretoria military base had submitted evidence of Cuban mechanics repairing civilian vehicles at state expense — including one belonging to retired SANDF chief

04 June 2023 - 00:04

It has been an excruciating wait for the family of Col Msindisi Dayimani who was run over and killed at Pretoria’s Thaba Tshwane military base in 2017 after blowing the whistle on what he said was a scheme that used Cuban mechanics to repair private cars in a workshop on the base. ..

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