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Former national police commissioner Riah Phiyega. (Oupa Nkosi)

Phiyega denies meeting alleged cartel boss Matlala as recordings expose Mchunu, Sibiya links

Former police commissioner Riah Phiyega has denied ever meeting alleged crime boss Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala after explosive recordings played before the Madlanga commission

Denial: The suspended police minister, Senzo Mchunu (above), has described the allegations by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi against him as ‘wild’. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Mchunu did not consult his two co-deputy police ministers on dissolving task team

Latest testimony at parliament’s police inquiry adds to the number of officials not consulted by suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu before disbanding the political killing…

Giving testimony: Brigadier Lesiba Mokoena of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also known as the Hawks. Photo: X: Maggsnaidu

Hawks deny interference in Molefe’s arrest

But police officials tell commission about cases of interference

Katiso Molefe was arrested on 6 December 2024 — a month before the task team was disbanded by suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. (Screenshot)

Hawks interfered in Molefe arrest, says political killings task team member

Witness describes a clash between a KwaZulu-Natal-based task unit and a Gauteng-based Hawks unit

Deputy police minister Cassel Mathale. (SAPS/Facebook)

Mchunu’s letter was ‘unusual’ and ‘problematic’, says police deputy minister Cassel Mathale

Latest testimony at parliament’s police inquiry adds to the number of officials not consulted by suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu before disbanding the political killing…

Former police minister Bheki Cele. (Paul Botes)

Cele: I would have avoided the Marikana massacre

Bheki Cele, who was police commissioner from 2009 until he was dismissed in 2011, criticised his successor Riah Phiyega’s handling of the 2012 tragedy

Coming out fighting: Riah Phiyega contends she has been made a ‘scapegoat’ for the Marikana massacre. (Herman Verwey/Gallo Images/Beeld)

Phiyega’s ‘zombie litigation’ to fight Marikana findings costs taxpayers

Nine years later, the government has not finalised damages claims, but has paid millions for Phiyega to contest the scathing findings against her

Xolani Nzuza speaks to injured and arrested miners at the ‘Koppie,’ Marikana, July 2021.

No justice left behind after the Marikana massacre

Close to a decade after the Marikana massacre, President Cyril Ramaphosa has not visited the survivors as he promised to do, judges have acquitted police officers, children can’t…

Riah Phiyega was two months into her job as national commissioner when police killed 34 striking miners in the North West town of Marikana on 16 August 2012.

Phiyega bid to sidestep Marikana massacre dismissed

Ex-police commissioner Riah Phiyega hoped to quash findings including colluding in a cover-up and misleading the public about what happened at the platinum mine in 2012.

Driven: Mpumalanga police commissioner Mondli Zuma is no stranger to controversy. (Photo by Gallo Images/City Press/Khaya Ngwenya)

Top cop’s state-funded luxury cars

Mpumalanga police commissioner Mondli Zuma has allegedly flouted regulations to purchase a flashy fleet.

Tomisin Adebanji is about to graduate medical school. What happens next

Phiyega files review application against Claassen inquiry

The inquiry found that the suspended police commissioner was not fit to hold office and that she lied to the Marikana Commission of Inquiry.

Riah Phiyega was two months into her job as national commissioner when police killed 34 striking miners in the North West town of Marikana on 16 August 2012.

Zuma to consider report on Phiyega’s fitness to hold office

The report was delivered to Zuma by the chairperson of the board of inquiry, Judge Neels Claassen.

Suspended National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega during the Claassen Commission of Inquiry in June this year.

‘Cut-and-paste’ report invalid, says Phiyega

Suspended SAPS commissioner seeks a review of the report that led to a board of inquiry, which has now reportedly found she is not fit to hold office.

Tension is mounting amid a heavy police and private security presence at Lonmin .

Lonmin could lose licence over failure to improve workers’ living conditions

The presidency says the company has been too slow to build accommodation for its workers, many of whom still live in temporary shacks.

UFS is embracing the challenge to transform education beyond the model that was established centuries ago

​Phiyega’s war on Booysen led to an unlikely – and surprising – alliance with McBride

Initially suspicious, the major general discovered another side to the tenacious IPID director — which in turn would lead to McBride’s suspension

Claassen inquiry now mulling Phiyega’s fate

A board of inquiry into suspended national police commissioner Riah Phiyega’s fitness for office was concluded on Friday pending a final finding.

Phiyega’s refusal to testify at Claassen inquiry ‘will come back to haunt her’

The Claassen board of inquiry is investigating suspended police commissioner Riah Phiyega’s fitness for office following the Marikana massacre.

Suspended South African Police Service Commissioner

Phiyega mustn’t be spared testimony by Marikana survivors and widows – lawyers

The Claassen inquiry failed to adequately cross-examine the suspended police commissioner, victims’ representatives argue.

Death’s hill: Protesters were present on the day the Farlam Commission of Inquiry inspected the koppie at Marikana where 34 miners shot by police. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy Picture: Delwyn Verasamy

Phiyega’s judgment day looms

What was said by witnesses appears to suggest it will be difficult to prove her complicity in the Marikana massacre.

Phiyega’s email exposes her deceit

Evidence at the Claassen inquiry into the police commissioner’s fitness to hold office reveals that she secretly sought to undermine the Farlam probe.