Mabuyane Mabuza reflects on the comments on social media at the surprise that Thabo Bester was not registered at Home Affairs. She writes it is a real phenomenon, especially in farming communities.
When one reads what has happened in the Thabo Bester saga, it reinforces the sense that we are in a situation where state institutions, in this case, concerned with public security, are eroding, collapsing and generally dysfunctional, writes Raymond Suttner.