Prep for KZN top cop's testimony intensifies

Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi claimed that there was systemic corruption at the highest levels of power

- MAYIBONGWE MAQHINA

ADVOCATE Norman Arendse, SC, was named on Friday as the evidence leader for the Ad Hoc Committee that will inquire into the serious allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.

Arendse, will be assisted by two advocates, Maria Mokhoaetsi and Lerato Zikalala. This emerged when the committee met to receive a progress report on the preparations for its hearings set to start later this month.

Briefing the committee, chairperson Soviet Lekganyane said invitations had been sent to seven people identified by the committee.

These were Mkhwanazi, police commissioner Fannie Masemola, suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu, deputy policy commissioner Shadrack Sibiya, acting minister Prof Firoz Cachalia, deputy ministers Cassel Mathale and Polly Boshielo.

"There is no additional witness that has been invited. Signed letters are sent to the seven persons named here," Lekganyane said.

In an apparent report, he said that no one has been told when to appear before the committee as yet, quoting Sibiya who said he would testify on the said date.