The Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate Allegations made by SAPS KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi deliberated last night on apparent inconsistencies in suspended police minister Mr Senzo Mchunu’s evidence.
President Cyril Ramaphosa place Minister Mchunu on special leave on 13 July 2025. The committee has been deliberating on its draft report – over 700 pages – for several weeks. Several committee members agreed that Mr Mchunu’s evidence contained material inconsistencies and a considerable amount of time was spent deliberating on the Minister’s directive to disband the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).
Discussions also turned around the fact that the dissolution of the PKTT could have aided organised crime cartels. Committee Chairperson Soviet Lekganyane said while there are no findings against the so-called “Big Five” crime cartels, the decision to disband the task team had the potential to aid them and others with similar criminal intent.
The committee further deliberated on the fact that the removal and movements of PKTT case dockets could have delayed cases and hampered investigations. The committee further found that docket management, case continuity and evidentiary safeguards were insufficient, especially once the PKTT was transferred from KwaZulu-Natal to Pretoria.
For example, PKTT dockets were transferred without settled docket-by-docket allocation, confirmed investigating officers, adequate arrangements for prosecutorial and witness continuity, or a consistently applied command decision concerning active and court-going matters.
Furthermore, the transfer materially disrupted investigative and prosecutorial continuity in at least some matters and was implemented before a clear, written and consistently applied command decision had settled authority, custody, allocation, prosecutorial continuity and successor capacity.
The committee will continue its deliberations on 9 September.
Rajaa Azzakani
8 September 2026
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