The Vrede police station in the Free State has been called out yet again for ignoring political cases relating to the Gupta-linked Estina dairy farm project, the state capture commission of inquiry heard on Thursday.
Former DA councillor Doctor Radebe was attacked by a group of people he referred to as “[former agriculture MEC] Mosebenzi Zwane’s personal force” after he reported that cattle carcasses had been dumped at a stream in Vrede.
“I was attacked personally by people I believe were Zwane’s personal force,” Radebe told the commission, chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.
“He [Xhasa] said such cases do not fall in their office and informed me that a certain official from Bethlehem would deal with it as this was a political case – even today, these people from Bethlehem never came back to me,” he told the commission.
