'Police service dirty and deeply corrupted' – Mkhwanazi

KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has pinpointed the moment when he observed a decline in the standards of the South African Police Service.

- Jarryd Westerdale

Mkhwanazi was speaking during the afternoon session of day two of parliament’s ad hoc committee into his corruption allegations.

As well as the state of policing structures, Mkhwanazi also reasserted his belief that a DA member had compromised investigations by publicly sharing sensitive intelligence.

EFF leader Julius Malema was walking the general through his history in the police, which Mkhwanazi joined in 1993.

When questioning about the late 2000s, Mkhwanazi spoke of a shift in culture within the police.

He said that politics began to infiltrate police structures during the ANC leadership battle between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma.

Mbeki fired Zuma as his deputy in 2005, but Zuma won the ANC presidency at the 2007 conference in Polokwane.