Know the man behind Covid-19 ‘safety’ measures: Would you feel comfortable if you met him in the woods?

By Baas Kruger

Since Dr Zweli Mkhize has been given the integral task of leading the fight against Covid-19, it wouldn't hurt to get to know the person you have entrusted with your own life a bit better:

                                                                        Dr Zweli Mkhize

18 July 1997 - Sifiso Nkabinde accused Zweli Mkhize of sending his bodyguards to tear down electioneering posters of his political party; the NCF.

Nkabinde had joined the ANC, then expelled and formed his own party NCF. He later joined the United Democratic Movement as second in command to Bantu Holomisa.

January 25 1999 - Zweli Mkhize, travelling with a one Bheki Cele escaped unharmed in a shootout at the Richmond CBD, Southern KZN.

23 January 1999 - Two days earlier Nkabinde had been murdered. Later this day, 11 people are shot and killed in Richmond as retaliation for Nkabinde's death.

Nkabinde had been recruited as a security police agent in 1988 by Captain JT Pieterse, based in the Natal Midlands. Nkabinde's source number SR4252, Bhekumuzi Gabriel Nkabinde – his given names, was also allocated nom de plume Derrick Nene.

IFP's David Ntombela had been earlier recruited by Captain Gerry Brookes, who was based in Pietermaritzburg, and during 1993, both Ntombela and Nkabinde were handled by Sergeant Shane Morris, based in Richmond.

During the period between 1998/9, prior to Nkabinde's murder, David Ntombela's right hand man Philip Powell faced an investigation for obtaining six truckloads of guns from Vlaakplaas security police base commander Eugene De Kok.

Four truckloads were collected on October 1, 1993 and two more on October 20, while Zweli Mkhize faced an investigation into supplying arms to David Ntombela, along with an investigation for conspiring to murder the very same Ntombela. These charges laid by Ntombela himself.

Zweli Mkhize's right hand man Bheki Cele, had on many occasions publicly questioned the relationship between Nkabinde, Powell and Ntombela, further now adding- as to why Ntombela was suddenly the most emotional and outspoken man against Nkabinde's death, as Nkabinde and Ntombela had each pulled out guns and threatened each other at the KZN Provincial Legislature before?

What's key to note is that Mkhize's bodyguards had received their paramilitary training from UDM leader Bantu Holomisa's Bantustan government of the Transkei.

So in essence, you had the three main leading instigating warlords Zweli Mkhize, David Ntombela and Sifiso Nkabinde and all their respective allies publicly displaying deep seated hatred and animosity towards each other, yet intricate details behind the scenes show a joint network of collaboration between all three.

The IFP/ANC civil war left 20 000 black people dead.

Zweli Mkhize's bodyguard Bruce Mhlongo would later speak of how Mkhize offered a R200 000 payment to kill Sifiso Nkabinde and that Zweli was getting impatient that Nkabinde's assassination was taking too long.

Simphiwe Shabane also collaborated this and further added that Zweli Mkhize had delivered the money for them to carry out the hit, along with Joel Mkhize and Phetheni Mkhize.

But what was the motive behind Sifiso Nkabinde's murder? Maybe it is best left to "analysts" to explain...

2018 - Police raided the home of Zweli Mkhize, arresting nephew Siya Mkhize relating to Siya's security company supplying and in possession of guns used in the spate of political killings that had resurfaced and rocked KZN during 2017 leading up to the ANC's elective conference at Nasrec.