By Marcus Moloko
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has once again alleged that the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) Crime Intelligence division has long manipulated executive authorities to buy influence and secure favours.
Mkhwanazi pointed to a 2011 incident involving the construction of a perimeter wall around the late South African ambassador to France and former Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa’s private residence, a project he claimed was illicitly funded through Crime Intelligence’s covert accounts.
“The minister [Mthethwa] never asked for the wall,” Mkhwanazi told the Ad Hoc Committee probing the allegations he made of police corruption and interference.
“Members of the Crime Intelligence took the money secretly to build it; not for security, but to control the minister. This way, they could loot that money themselves, and the minister couldn’t object.”
According to a 2012 Auditor-General report, the wall cost an estimated R200,000 and was paid for using funds
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