Mchunu's chief of staff: I'm not part of drug cartels, I take offence

Parly committee evidence leader 'must apologise'

- By Mawande AmaShabalala [e-mail]

Adv Norman Arendse SC, the evidence leader of parliament's ad-hoc committee investigating allegations of corruption in the criminal justice system.

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Suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu's chief of staff, Cedric Nkabinde, has unleashed his lawyers on parliament's ad-hoc committee investigating allegations of corruption in the criminal justice system for “falsely associating him with drug cartels” in Gauteng.

Nkabinde is seething with anger that evidence leader Adv Norman Arendse SC this week linked him to drug cartels without evidence.

If Arendse does not issue a public retraction and apology, he threatened, a bruising legal showdown is unavoidable.

This is contained in a letter of demand that Nkabinde's lawyers sent to Arendse on Friday.

In the letter, Nkabinde said that Arendse made the “false, misleading and damaging” remarks against Nkabinde on Wednesday during the appearance of suspended deputy national police commissioner Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya.