The second episode of the second season of My Only Story, a six-part true-crime podcast series written and narrated by Deon Wiggett, is now live.
We're still at St Andrew's College in the Eastern Cape – the school where schoolboy Thomas Kruger took his own life, and where a top South African water-polo coach resigned suddenly after he faced disciplinary charges for signing a boy out of the school's hospital overnight without authorisation.
Join us as we travel to the school campus in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) to see how these events unfolded.
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Its wonderful to know that there are people out there like yourself who would, based on your comment, be very happy to employ Mr McKenzie in the role of a water polo coach at a boys school. So perhaps his life has not been destroyed?
I have, over the past two weeks, worked systematically through the so-called "evidence" in this matter, and, once again, I wish to reiterate that there is not a shred of compelling evidence here, that will survive the scrutiny of a competent court. This, on the surface, appears t be a well orchestrated witch hunt, based on rumours and innuendos. I am of the opinion that this type of sensationalism, greatly impacts on the integrity of the purported objective of these initiatives. I hear and read about so-called "inappropriate " behaviour. Inappropriate behaviour does not constitute, de facto, "illegal behaviour. There is clearly no distinct nexus between the suicide and McKenzie, besides blatant generalisations, and 3rd party deductions. I agree, severa…
"....... the only person that, on the surface, ...." - perhaps not?
Although I greatly admire and appreciate what you are doing, Deon, one must be mindful of the fact that the evidence in the St Andrews matter is, at best, speculative. I have listened to the podcast and read the accompanying news articles, but find no substantial hard evidence that will stand up in court. It might be a case that I am not privy to some more compelling evidence, but on what is being presented, it appears to be circumstantial speculation. The burden of proof in cases like this are normally quite high, hence I feel that one should proceed with utmost caution. One thing is evident, the relationship between MacKenzie and Kruger exceeded the appropriate norms of a teacher/learner…
I can't wait for this disgusting human to be behind bars...what makes me sick is that he is out there, continuing, with how many other young boys. Go get him...pleasssse...he needs to be stopped.