In his essay, Operation Tailwinds: Scrap BEE in return for an amnesty (19 September), contributing author Sean Mclaughlin examined the idea of the parties in the Government of National Unity agreeing on a conditional amnesty on wrongdoing in office from 1994 to the present, in return for a liberalisation of South Africa’s labour laws.
Private investigation specialist Mike Bolhuis, who heads Specialised Security Services (SSS), was cited in the article on matters relating whistleblowing and corruption.
While the article made it clear that Bolhuis’s view on a conditional amnesty was not known, McLaughlin has pointed out that the piece may have conveyed the impression that Bolhuis was, in fact, in favour of such an arrangement.
For the purposes of clarity, McLaughlin has edited his earlier piece to remove Bolhuis’s contribution.
McLaughlin said that in a subsequent engagement, SSS strongly emphasised its rigorously apolitical stance and that it operated entirely independently.
[Image: Generated by OpenAI by Sean McLaughlin]