The DA leading a picket outside Tembisa Hospital.
By silencing Babita Deokaran, the procurement terrorists most likely had three inter-linked aims. Mpumelelo Mkhabela examines what those aims were.
Babita Deokaran, the dedicated civil servant, was murdered by procurement terrorists a year ago. Let’s enter this phrase into South Africa’s political dictionary, so that it might sink in: procurement terrorism.
A procurement terrorist is a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation against civil servants in the pursuit of political and commercial aims. This definition emphasises the role of the mastermind who stands to gain both politically and commercially, while the assassins only get small change. The prevalence of the phenomenon justifies the phrase procurement terrorism.
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