News24.com | AS IT HAPPENED | Worry about the manner ‘in which many comrades are dying these days’ – Zuma, others bid farewell at #WatsonFuneral
2019-09-03 14:30
Family, friends and associates of former Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson have paid their final respects to the late businessman in Port Elizabeth.
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Mkhuseli “Khusta” Jack says Gavin Watson “loved his country and his people”, and describes him as “an individual with his own ideas” who came into the struggle. “With my own eyes, I saw a generous and hard-working person, and a fitness fanatic, in the man…”
Jack: “Together with his brothers, they abandoned the privileges associated with the pigmentation of their skin, to join those who were racially discriminated.”
Jack: “When the Watson brothers went to play [rugby] in the townships, BJ Vorster was the prime minister of South Africa, he was in charge of the country…”
Jack: “Gavin, together with his brothers, deserted the racially constructed apartheid rugby and joined the anti-apartheid and non-racial rugby…”
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Gavin Watson investigation on death car wrapped up, now it’s a waiting game – expert
Accident reconstruction expert Kondrad Lotter, who was appointed by late Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson’s family to investigate his death, said on Monday he was still waiting for information pertaining to certain aspects of the investigation.
Speaking to News24, Lotter added he was aware of the anticipation for the final autopsy report.
He said the investigation, focusing on the car Watson was driving when he died, had been finalised.
However, Lotter added he was still in the process of gathering information. “At this point, it’s a waiting game,” he said.
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