Mkhwanazi: Disbanding PKTT part of sabotage pattern

By Johnathan Paoli

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has fiercely defended the work of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), describing it as “unmatched” in its success rate and warning that suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s decision to dissolve it was both “irrational” and “influenced by outside interests”.

“Someone thought that the Political Killings Task Team was the one responsible for the investigations in Gauteng towards these criminal syndicates… which involved the participation of senior police officers in the SAPS, especially at head office, as well as senior politicians and their associates,” Mkhwanazi told the Madlanga Commission.

The commission, chaired by retired Constitutional Court Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, is probing Mkhwanazi’s explosive July allegations that the criminal justice system has been infiltrated by criminal syndicates with links to politicians, police officers, and businesspeople.

Its proceedings resumed on Thursday at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College in Tshwane, where evidence leader Advocate