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In his recently published memoirs, My Own Liberator, retired Deputy Chief Justice and liberation struggle stalwart, Dikgang Moseneke, mentions a certain young activist, Nkosinathi Nhleko.

Moseneke (then an advocate) represented this young activist in a politically-motivated murder trial in the 80s.  The activist had led the necklacing of a 78-year-old resident and traditional healer in a tiny Eastern Cape township near Queenstown.

Since the current Minister of Police Nkosinathi Nhleko shares both a first and last name with the person mentioned in the book, a wrong impression has been created in some reader’s minds that he is the person in question.

In the wake of many enquiries that Minister Nhleko is receiving, he wishes to categorically distance himself from the person and incidents contained in the book by the former deputy chief justice.

Said Nhleko: “I would like to place it on record that I have never murdered anyone, nor been convicted of murder nor lived in Queenstown. I am definitely not the person Judge Moseneke writes about.”

Nonetheless Minister Nhleko wishes Moseneke all the success with his memoirs, and his future personal endeavours.

Issued by GCIS on behalf of the Ministry of Police