When a detective broke down at the Madlanga commission in Pretoria last week while relaying how a colleague was murdered while investigating an unsolved mass shooting, the officers family in Soweto cried as they listened to his testimony.
Everyone was emotional we started crying, said the relative of the late Sgt Gavin Ndlovu, who was the lead investigator in the 2022 Mdlalose Tavern massacre in Soweto in which 16 people were killed.
Ndlovus name came up at the commission when Witness A, whose identity is being protected, broke down as he told how the interference and threats he received while doing his work reminded him of Ndlovu, who was brutally gunned down while investigating the tavern massacre.