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How Mchunu bypassed top cop in disbanding elite police unit
Cape Times
|December 05, 2025
POLICE Minister Senzo Mchunu conceded that national police commissioner Fannie Masemola, with whom he confirmed having “a good working relationship’, should have been the first to advise on the future of the SAPS Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).
Mchunu, who has since been placed on enforced leave proceeded to disband the PKTT without consulting the very officials best positioned to brief him, he confirmed to the Madlanga Commission yesterday.
He also told commission chairperson retired Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga that there was no meeting, no engagement and no briefing from senior SAPS leadership before he issued the directive to shut down the PKTT on December 31, 2024.
“I took a decision without Masemola? he admitted.
The minister's directive instructed that the PKTT be disbanded “immediately” — a term he struggled to define before the commission.
Madlanga asked whether there was any prior engagement before this “bombshell” instruction.
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