murdered stars and feuding cops

Mkhwanazi, testifying in Parliament last week, revealed details about “the murders of these DJs”, which he alleged were “drug-related”.

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Though he did not name the DJs, they are presumably Buthelezi (DJ Vintos) and Sefoka (DJ Sumbody).

Mkhwanazi explained the police procedure when a drug consignment was seized: an officer was meant to identify it as an exhibit and book it into a police station.

If the consignment was large, it had to be transferred elsewhere for safe storage.

Mkhwanazi turned his attention to a drug consignment discovered in Durban, which was meant to have been stored in a forensic laboratory.

There was a laboratory about 15km away in Amanzimtoti, but it did not have a facility for such storage, so he said the consignment should have been sent to Pretoria to be stored there.

But Mkhwanazi said the drug stash had instead been moved to the Hawks building in Port Shepstone and locked in an office “that had no one guarding it”.

He added: “During so-called alleged load shedding at night, there was a break-in.”

Daily Maverick has reported extensively on a 541kg cocaine consignment, worth about R200-million, that was stolen during a burglary at the Hawks offices in Port Shepstone in November 2021. This was widely viewed as an inside job.