A puzzling unsolved murder
THE murder of Senzo Meyiwa, its political ramifications, the legal quagmire the investigations are deeply entrenched in, and the scope and depth of the allegations and counterallegations read like chapters from a John le Carré thriller.
What is dramatically unfolding is not-fiction but a bizarre chain of events that defies logic and a sense of rationale. The entire issue is shrouded in an impenetrable veil, a fog of fleeting silhouettes, that appear and disappear in a hazy political background.
When two or more people present at the crime scene maintain an eerie silence, rest assured that a huge conspiracy is in progress. Is there a cover-up in progress and at what depth is there a higher involvement?
With the amount of expertise available to law enforcement, this murder could have been solved years ago.
It is a proven historical fact that conspiracy theories thrive in polarising political climates; they do not emerge in a vacuum. The current political crisis and chaos in the ANC is a classic example.
Sadly what we are witnessing is a form of social media warfare, where conspiracy theories spread faster than the salient facts. Many governments have resorted to conspiracy theories to distract from their own failures to
pre-empt criticism.
Science, forensics, evidence and criminal technology can prove the events that took place on October 26, 2014. There is a litany of theories, some overlapping and reinforcing, some contradictory, all of them useful in understanding the shadowy power of the conspiracy theory in the 21st century.
It is under certain circumstances a way for some to exert control over or within unstable, complex systems.
The devastation caused by the murder of a brilliant soccer icon provides fertile ground for conspiracies to thrive in an atmosphere where truth remains an elusive commodity; the expanding narrative is driven by falsehoods.