Widow angry at DD Mabuza for taking truth about husband's murder to grave

Late leader once promised to spill beans on killing

- By Tshwarelo eseng Mogakane

A Mpumalanga woman whose husband died in what was branded a political killing in Mbombela 15 years ago says she is angry at former deputy president David “DD” Mabuza for dying without telling the truth about the murder despite promising to do so.

In an exclusive interview in Mbombela this week, Pinky Mpatlanyane told Sunday World that she is angry at Mabuza for dying with the truth she had been waiting more than a decade to hear.

“I’m angry,” she said, filled with grief. “I’m angry that he left without telling the country what he promised to reveal about my husband's death.”

Pinky is the widow of Sammy Mpatlanyane, a whistleblower gunned down in Mbombela in 2010, a murder that many in political and community circles believed was politically motivated.

Speaking to Sunday World while arrangements for Mabuza’s category 2 state funeral were underway in the same city where her husband was murdered 15 years ago, Pinky said her sense of devastation has been reignited.