Mchunu asks Ramaphosa for a no-nonsense probe

President has been rattled by the allegations

- By Setumo Stone

Under-fire police minister Senzo Mchunu has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to move at lightning speed to launch a no-nonsense, independent investigation into swirling allegations that he unlawfully interfered in high-profile police cases involving his associates.

Sunday World can reveal that Mchunu met Ramaphosa on Wednesday in Johannesburg and asked the president to move with haste and probe his decision to disband the political killings task team and make public the investigations' findings within two months, as he does not want the dark cloud to hang over his head for too long.

Mchunu is also set to appear before the ANC's integrity commission to present his side of the story.

Sources in the corridors of power said in that meeting the president demanded chapter and verse of the SAPS fiasco.

“The president expressed his frustration that the allegations by the KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner have actually thrust him under the spotlight, and he now has to act. So he wanted to understand what was happening,” a government insider told Sunday World.

Last weekend, KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, dropped a bombshell, alleging that together with Mchunu, some MPs, prosecutors, and even judges were knee-deep in defeating the ends of justice.

Mkhwanazi alleged during a media briefing that Mchunu had dissolved the elite investigative task team to protect suspected criminals who were under the team's radar, including tender kingpin Vusi “The Cat” Matlala.

The president, our sources said, has been rattled by the claims and is feeling the heat of growing public scrutiny.

“The minister urged the president to conduct a speedy investigation on the matter, preferably not lasting more than two months, or even shorter, where everything about this matter could be brought into the open.