South Africans have a particular fluency in the language of institutional inaction dressed as concern. We’ve watched it for more than fifty years. Someone dies in state custody. Officials express concern. An investigation is announced. A report follows, then languishes somewhere quiet. And repeat. If you grew up watching South Africa’s Independent Police Investigative Directorate absorb scandal after scandal without consequence, you’ll read Mexi…
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