By Johnathan Paoli
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is expected to return to Parliament’s ad hoc committee this week, facing questions over allegations of torture and internal power struggles within the South African Police Service.
Among the most serious claims before the committee are allegations that Mkhwanazi was present during the torture of a detainee in a 2024 kidnapping investigation.
Suspended police sergeant Samkeliso Mlotshwa told the committee on Friday that he was assaulted and interrogated while in police custody after being arrested in connection with the kidnapping of KwaDukuza businessman Zakariyya Desai.
Mlotshwa, a member of the SAPS Border Policing Unit who joined the service in 2006, said he was arrested in Mozambique in November 2024 and returned to South Africa days later.
He testified that on 9 December 2024, he and Mozambican co-accused Esmael Nangy were taken from their cells at KwaDukuza police station and driven in
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