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STAFF REPORTER
A SECOND bodyguard working for vice chancellor, Professor Sakhela Buhlungu, was killed near Alice, Eastern Cape, at the weekend.
The bodyguard was travelling on the R63 when a vehicle collided with his car, killing him instantly. In their probe, the police wants to find out what happened and whether it was deliberate, or accidental.
“The university community is understandably shocked and shattered. Earlier this year, we lost Mr [Mboneli] Vesele, and now we have lost another colleague,” according to UFH spokesperson JP Roodt.
The bodyguard had protected a member of the university’s management executive committee.
“While the death occurs in highly unusual circumstances, as the university clamps down on rampant and systemic corruption over several decades, which run politically and criminally deep, the university will not be drawn to comment or speculate on the death until authorities have concluded investigations or until more information becomes available to us.”
Eastern Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana said the crash occurred at about 01:20 on Sunday. According to the police, the bodyguard, driving a Mercedes Benz, was en route from Bhisho to Ginsburg with three passengers at about 1:20 am Sunday when his vehicle was allegedly struck by a Nissan NP 300.
The crash is being investigated, and there have been no arrests.
The bodyguard is understood to have been a witness in a police investigation into corruption claims being probed at the university. In April, five people were arrested and appeared in court on charges of murder and attempted murder of university employees.
The five – Bongani Peter, Sicelo Mbulawa, Wanini Khuza, Mthobisi Khanyile and Mthobisi Dlamini-Zondo – are due in court today (4 May) for a bail application.
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