A senior manager of an agricultural machinery distributor who repeatedly used the k-word to refer to black people during a presentation at a dealership in Ermelo, Mpumalanga, has been let off the hook after the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) declined to prosecute him.

In a letter dated August 31 2022, the prosecutor said she could not lay charges due to lack of proof. NPA spokesperson Monica Nyuswa said the state could not prove all the elements of crimen injuria...