Muziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief is found dead

Muziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief, was found dead in his car parked near the Botanical Gardens in Pretoria, with a bullet wound to the head. Mdluli is rumoured to have told his lover, Zintle Galada, that he was going to have a meeting with police on the day of his death. Although police initially concluded that his death was suicide, it subsequently emerged that many within the NIA believed that he had been murdered. Dr. S.H. Rossouw's findings that it was difficult for a right-handed person to shoot himself/herself in the forehead also strengthened this belief.Even the Pan Africanist Congress, of whose armed wing Mr Mdluli was the commander before joining the NIA, as well as Mdluli’s own family, alleged that he was murdered. Later, one of NIA directors was overheard saying that they believed that Mdluli was killed after making a discovery in an investigation into a possible agency role in the recently failed coup in the Comoros, led by Bob Denard. Further ReadingSouth African Spy Chief Probing Coup When Slain - Orlando Sentinel. 1995. [ONLINE] 9 October Available at: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1995-10-09/news/9510090199_1_coup-nia-probing. [Accessed 19 February 2015].|Statement from the Ministry of Intelligence Services on the Death of NIA Security Head mr Muziwendoda Mdluli [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.polity.org.za/polity/govdocs/pr/1995/pr1004.html. [Accessed 19 February 2015].