By Johnathan Paoli
Private investigator Paul O’Sullivan has accused KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi of concealing alleged political interference in the South African Police Service for eight years, maintaining that the senior police officer’s explosive July 6, 2025, media briefing may have been “a smokescreen” to protect other senior Crime Intelligence officials.
Giving evidence before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Monday, O’Sullivan repeatedly questioned Mkhwanazi’s credibility as a whistleblower, arguing that he failed to disclose his own alleged role in historical events involving former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli.
“For eight years Mkhwanazi covered up. If a person will become a whistleblower they must expose their previous conducts too. Mkhwanazi didn’t lay bare everything on July 6th. Mkhwanazi should have confessed his previous sin,” he said.
O’Sullivan called on the commission to establish whether the briefing was a smokescreen, describing criminal intelligence as “a crime scene due to
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