Malindi Mfazi’s cry for justice over husband’s death
Lindelwa Mfazi is speaking out after the death of her husband, Lt-Gen Sindile Mfazi, was reclassified from a Covid-related death to a formal murder investigation. She alleges that her husband was poisoned due to his principled stance against corruption within the police service.
Why it matters
The case highlights deep-seated issues of corruption and political interference within national law enforcement agencies.
For five agonising years, Lindelwa Mfazi was told her late husband, Lt-Gen Sindile Mfazi, was just another casualty of the Covid pandemic. But behind the official police statements lay a darker truth she carried in her heart: her husband, the deputy national commissioner for crime detection, had been poisoned.
Now, after the explosive reclassification of his death from an inquest to a formal murder investigation, Lindelwa is speaking out. In a deeply moving tribute and rebuke, she painted for the Sunday Times a portrait this week of a fearless liberation hero while laying bare her struggle with a police service she accuses of abandoning her family in their darkest hour.
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