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Suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Mchunu challenges committee report, alleging prejudicial findings

Parliament’s ad hoc committee defended the evidence leaders’ draft report after suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu objected to the findings that he dismantled the PKTT…

Dubious family relations: Suspended Sedibeng Deputy District Police commissioner Mbangwa Nkhwashu. Photo: Screenshot

From freedom to looting

Explosive testimony before the Madlanga Commission has laid bare allegations of cartel-linked corruption involving senior police officials and municipal departments, raising…

Fannie Masemola, the national police commissioner, has denied receiving financial gratification from businessman  Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s contract.

Police commissioner Fannie Masemola added to corruption case State vs Matlala and 15 Others

Masemola has become a co-accused in the case involving 12 police officials, three company directors and a R360 million contract awarded to Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s company,…

Targeted: Martha Mani Rantsofu was an accountant in the municipality’s finance department where she handled municipal accounts and debts. Photo: Facebook

Political killings task team investigates assassination of municipal accountant

Martha Mani Rantsofu, a finance clerk at Emfuleni local municipality, was gunned down while waiting for her vehicle at a tyre-fitting shop

Nabbed: The 12 senior police officers appearing in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. Photo: Kamogelo Moichela

How the Cat captured top brass in SAPS

The recent arrests of 12 senior police officials show how the alleged cartel leader took over the procurement process

National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola. (SAPS/X)

Police Commissioner Masemola served with warrant for involvement in Matlala’s R360 million Medicare24 contract

Matlala’s Medicare24 contract was approved during Masemola’s tenure and later cancelled by the police commissioner after reports of poor service delivery and illegal procurement

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

Senzo Mchunu speaks after 12 cops arrested over R360m Medicare contract

The suspended police minister says the arrests are only the beginning and that his actions, alongside Idac investigations, were key to stopping the illegal contract

Deputy President Paul Mashatile. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Madlanga police witness links Vusumuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala to Deputy President Paul Mashatile

Witness F said Matlala told him to be loyal if he wanted to be promoted. However, Mashatile has denied meeting with Matlala

Suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Mchunu demands that Mkhwanazi provide evidence of corruption

Suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu said KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi had made unsubstantiated accusations without providing evidence

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla
Mkhwanazi and suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy and GCIS

Mkhwanazi renews claims against Mchunu

President Cyril Ramaphosa said he was not consulted before the political killings task team was disbanded

KZN provincial police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Cat Matlala’s cellblock friend spills the beans to Mkhwanazi

Mkhwanazi told the ad hoc committee that he maintained that Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala approached him as an informer and was used by key individuals in organised crime

North West businessman Suliman Carrim told the Madlanga commission he lost R8.4 million after funding Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s healthcare company, alleging he was misled by both Matlala and Brown Mogotsi

Mogotsi and Matlala played me out of R8.4 million, says Carrim

North West businessman Suliman Carrim told the Madlanga commission he lost R8.4 million after funding Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s healthcare company, alleging he was misled by both…

Proceedings at the Madlanga Commission were briefly disrupted on Monday after Witness F, a member of the South African Police Service organised crime unit, requested a postponement of his testimony, citing medical reasons.
 Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

UPDATED: Witness F hospitalised, Madlanga Commission postpones testimony

The witness’s testimony has been rescheduled for 16 March, the last day of the Madlanga Commission sitting

Can of worms: KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
sounded the alarm about police corruption. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

A look behind the rot in policing

The Madlanga commission and parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating corruption in policing have opened a crucial public conversation, analysts say

In the hot seat: Private forensic Investigator Paul O’Sullivan said he acted as a concerned citizen who wanted
to “uncapture” the state. Photo: Screenshot

MPs question O’Sullivan’s Ipid control

The private forensic investigator denied having undue influence on the police, insisting he was just a concerned citizen who wanted to help in ‘uncapturing the criminal justice…

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the army would be deployed to tackle illegal mining and gang violence and pledged urgent action against organised crime. (@PresidencyZA/X)

Ramaphosa announces crackdown on corruption in criminal justice system

The president said the army would be deployed to tackle illegal mining and gang violence and pledged urgent action against organised crime

In the hot seat: Private forensic Investigator Paul O’Sullivan said he acted as a concerned citizen who wanted
to “uncapture” the state. Photo: Screenshot

O’Sullivan accuses Mkhwanazi of running a parallel police force 

The private forensic Investigator described the KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner’s media briefing last July as an attack against rivals within the South African Police Service

Economic Freedom Fighters MP Julius Malema asked why Paul O’Sullivan stated in his affidavit that the committee could not ask him questions regarding events before 1990. (@EFFSouthAfrica/X)

O’Sullivan refuses to answer questions about background

EFF leader Julius Malema urged parliament’s d hoc committee probing corruption in the criminal justice system to compel the private forensic investigator to answer every question…

Police officer Fannie Nkosi, known as Witness F, told the Madlanga commission that suspended deputy national police commissioner for crime detection Shadrack Sibiya had requested Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala (above) to arrest social media blogger Musa Khawula. Photo: GCIS

Matlala’s SAPS links revealed

The commission heard testimony from police officials who regularly sent sensitive information to Matlala and relayed his messages to senior officials

KZN provincial police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Mkhwanazi and KZN Hawks boss at odds over office removal

KZN police say Lesetja Senona arrived at the office on Saturday and exhibited strange behaviour, prompting security personnel to seize his devices