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The forensic evidence team leader of the political killings task team told the Mandlanga commission that the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks) interfered in the arrests of murder co-accused Katiso Molefe and Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala. Maxwell Wanda said that, during a takedown operation at Molefe’s Sandhurst residence in Gauteng, a group of Hawks…
Deputy police minister Cassel Mathale’s testimony at parliament’s police ad hoc committee added to the number of government officials who were not consulted before suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu disbanded the KwaZulu-Natal political killings task team. Mathale said Mchunu’s December 2024 directive to “immediately” disband the task team and submit a closure report within a…
Former police minister Bheki Cele has criticised former national police commissioner Riah Phiyega over her handling of the Marikana mine killings. Cele told parliament’s ad hoc committee looking into police corruption that, if he had been in office during the Marikana massacre, in which 34 striking mineworkers were shot dead by police in 2012, the…