Dirty fighting among police exposed

Top brass drop bombshells in justice system corruption scandal

- MAYIBONGWE MAQHINA and SINENHLANHLA MASILELA

DEPUTY Police Commissioner, Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya is expected to testify tomorrow in the parliamentary inquiry probing allegations of corruption in the criminal justice system.

Sibiya was implicated in the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) when KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, and National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola gave their testimonies this week.

Ad Hoc Committee chairperson Soviet Lekganyane said on Friday that the public hearings would resume with Sibiya as the witness.

The inquiry has heard that Sibiya allegedly went ahead with plans to disband the PKTT despite being advised not to do so by Masemola, who had concerns with the directive issued by now-suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu in December 2024.

Sibiya had allegedly ordered for the removal of dockets from KwaZulu-Natal to the police head offices without the knowledge of the national commissioner.

Tomorrow’s testimony will take place against the backdrop of search and seizure warrants executed by the police to obtain electronic devices including laptops and cellphones at Sibiya’s house and the flat of Mchunu’s chief of staff Cedrick Nkabinde. Both have condemned the seizure of their electronic equipment, with Nkabinde claiming his brother was assaulted after the police mistook his brother for Nkabinde.