Mthethwa’s family disputes Mkhwanazi's claim that state funds built his perimeter wall

LATE South African ambassador to France and his now widow Philisiwe Buthelezi paid for every single brick of the perimeter wall at his home, said his family in denying KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s claims that Crime Intelligence slush funds had been used.

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Mkhwanazi told the Parliament's ad hoc committee inquiry that Crime Intelligence had secretly built a R600,000 wall at Mthethwa’s home in KwaMbonambi in KwaZulu-Natal.

The committee is hearing his testimony into his allegations of corruption in the criminal justice system.

Mkhwanazi told the MPs on Tuesday that he believes the wall was built without Mthethwa’s knowledge 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.