Sibiya to appear before Parliament’s ad hoc committee days after electronic devices seized

By Johnathan Paoli

All eyes will be on suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya when he appears before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee on Monday, as the inquiry into political interference, corruption, and misconduct within the South African Police Service (SAPS) enters a dramatic new phase.

The high-profile hearing comes after KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi implicated Sibiya in the controversial disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), a specialised unit established to investigate politically motivated assassinations in the province.

“I was hoping that this would go that way, where I’ll be given a chance as well to participate, but along the way, I can also see the anger in General Mkhwanazi, the vengeance… Even when he speaks, I would think that he has passed me, but every five seconds, he would go back to me again,” Sibiya said during the raid on Friday.

The task team’s