Task Team Guns for Mchunu

Unclear who ordered unit's disbandment.

- Kyle Zeeman

The task team at the center of a fight between "on leave" police minister Senzo Mchunu and KZN police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi had reportedly tried to arrest the minister and deputy police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya.

Mchunu instructed national police commissioner Fannie Masemola to disband the political killing task team in December last year, suggesting it did not add value to policing.

However, a month before the closure instructions were given, it had reportedly begun working on arresting Sibiya.

City Press sources within the security cluster said task team members had approached prosecutors in Gauteng and, later, Mpumalanga to secure a warrant of arrest.

"Last month, the police members who were traveling in a Mercedes-Benz V-class Kombi tried to obtain an arrest warrant from the director of public prosecutions for both Sibiya and Mchunu but were turned away. They were told that there was insufficient evidence that warranted arrest," a source told the paper.