SowetanLive reports that the University of Fort Hare (UFH) has raised concern about alleged poor police work around the death of a member of its protection unit whose vehicle was rammed at the weekend.

Msingath Langa died in a car crash on Sunday after a bakkie rammed into his vehicle along Cambridge Road in Qonce, Eastern Cape. UFH spokesperson JP Roodt said there was lack of basic and fundamental procedural forensic protocols at the crime scene. He claimed: “No accident reports were taken or filed before the vehicles were moved. We have established the Qonce police station omitted to document the vehicle registration details of the car that rammed into Mr Langa’s car in the station’s OB [occurrence book]. Concerningly, authorities failed to take blood tests to determine if this was a case of drunken driving or deliberate, despite the fact the driver was delivered to the police through a civil arrest by our protection services. While authorities knew the identity of the driver allegedly responsible on Sunday, they only made an arrest today. These developments, in our opinion, are highly suspicious. The university formally requests an investigation into police conduct.” Langa, who worked for the university from 2013, was a key witness in the murder cases of two colleagues in which five people have been arrested. The five are accused of being involved in the January attempted murder of vice-chancellor Prof Sakhela Buhlungu, which led to the death of his bodyguard Mboneli Vesele. They also face a murder charge for the death of the university’s fleet manager, Petrus Roets, who was shot and killed in his car at the Gonubie off-ramp outside East London.

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