Mthethwa’s family denies claims of Crime Intelligence funding for perimeter wall

AMBASSADOR Nathi Mthethwa's family said he and his wife, Philisiwe Buthelezi, paid for every single brick of the perimeter wall at his home as they denied claims made by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi that Crime Intelligence slush funds had been used.

- WILLEM PHUNGULA [e-mail]

Mkhwanazi, during his testimony on Tuesday before Parliament's ad hoc committee inquiry to elaborate on his allegations of corruption in the criminal justice system, said that Crime Intelligence had secretly built a R600 000 wall at Mthethwa’s home in KwaMbonambi in KwaZulu-Natal.

Mkhwanazi added that he believes the wall was built without Mthethwa’s knowl-

edge or request.

“We are sitting today, the country is in mourning because we lost one of our ambassadors in France. But that ambassador was a minister of police.

“As you switch on the television and you look at the homestead of the former minister, you're going to see a very big wall, a perimeter wall that was built by the money from Crime Intelligence. But nobody was held accountable for that, and the reports are there”