Wolmarans verdict a lesson, says SACP
2012-07-19 19:46
Johannesburg - The sentencing of former Rustenburg mayor Matthew Wolmarans and his former bodyguard is a lesson to those who use murder to hide corruption, the North West SACP said on Thursday.
"The criminal justice system has found and delivered on an appropriate sentence for the individuals it had found guilty irrespective of their political and social standing in society," SA Communist Party provincial secretary Madoda Sambatha said.
On Tuesday Judge Ronnie Hendricks sentenced Matshaba to life imprisonment and Wolmarans to 20 years in prison.
Moss Phakoe, a local councillor in the Rustenburg municipality, was shot dead at his home in Rustenburg Noord in March 2009.
He had compiled a dossier, implicating Wolmarans, about corruption in the municipality.
Phakoe handed the document to former co-operative governance minister Sicelo Shiceka, in the presence of Wolmarans, two days before he was killed.
The SACP said the verdict would help Phakoe's family achieve closure.
- SAPA
