Simon Nare
Former Ambassador to France Nathi Mthethwa is probably more well-known for being implicated in wrongdoing in several judicial commissions than for his political work, despite serving as minister for four terms across two portfolios.
Mthethwa’s name has been negatively mentioned in some of South Africa’s most well-known official inquiries, including the Farlam and State Capture commissions and, most recently, the Madlanga Commission.
Not even two weeks before Mthethwa’s alleged suicide, KwaZulu-Natal’s police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, accused him of political interference in policing matters while giving testimony at the Madlanga Commission.
The commission is probing numerous allegations made by Mkhwanazi during a 6 July press briefing, at which he claimed that the country’s criminal justice system had been infiltrated by criminal syndicates that were colluding with senior police officers, ministers and members of the judiciary, for personal gain.
Mthethwa reportedly fell to his death from the 22nd floor
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