Criminal enterprise claims linked to highest govt offices

BLOCKBUSTER CHARGES

- MTHOBISI NOZULELA and SIHLE MLAMBO

CHAIRPERSON of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police, Ian Cameron has called for an urgent parliamentary debate following explosive allegations of meddling and political interference in the SAPS.

The allegations were made on Sunday by KwaZulu-Natal Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, who has fingered police minister Senzo Mchunu, his close associate Brown Mogotsi and Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya, as key tenets to the alleged interference in police operations, including disbanding a task team investigating political killings.

"This was done without the authority of the National Commissioner, nor I, as a Provincial Commissioner, was ever informed," Mkhwanazi said.

"Five of these dockets had instructions to arrest perpetrators, but nothing has been done; they are sitting in an archive in his office in Pretoria. God knows why."

During a marathon press conference on Sunday, Mkhwanazi, declared he was combat ready and willing to die for the people of South Africa.

He accused the police ministry of interference in police operations and described how the minister and Mogotsi had been entangled with a SAPS service provider, Vusumuzi "Cat" Matlala, who won a R360-million tender with the law enforcement agency in 2024.