By: Buhle Mbhele
The Kwazulu-Natal Police Commissioner General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has told the Madlanga Commission, sitting at the Bridgett Mabandla Justice College in Pretoria that limited progress in arrests made in political killings related cases led to the non-performance of the task team.
Mkhwanazi has flagged the lack of strategy as some of the issues he identified upon investigating reasons behind the snail pace at which the task team was moving.
He is delivering his testimony this afternoon at the commission investigating the allegations of political infiltration he made in July this year, where he also implicated his boss Police Minister Senzo Mchunu who is on special leave because of these accusations.
Mkhwanazi raised Mchunu and General Shadrack Sibiya’s names when making those explosive allegations at a press briefing, at the Provincial SAPS headquarters in Durban.
He told journalists that the pair are allegedly involved in the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team which was established to address the scourge of politicians being murdered in KZN.
In his first phase of the testimony around this part of his scope of evidence, Mkhwanazi says that the political killings task team has been resuscitated a couple of times but continues to fail to deliver its mandate.
Mkhwanazi adds that this led to an investigation as to why there is no progress made in this team as the killings of politicians in KZN persisted.
Mkhwanazi is continuing his testimony at the Madlanga commission, once he concludes, his witnesses and evidence will be brought to the spotlight and key to this is his boss, National Police Commissioner Fanie Masemola taking the witness stand.
