By Johnathan Paoli
Parliament’s ad hoc committee into alleged corruption within South Africa’s criminal justice system opened on Monday with MPs clashing over whether two of their colleagues could continue serving on the committee amid possible conflicts of interest.
Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya was due to testify in response to explosive claims by KwaZulu-Natal Police Chief Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi that he helped engineer the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) at the behest of suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, on behalf of politically-connected underworld figures.
But before Sibiya could take the stand, the hearing was dominated by arguments over the presence of Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Lisa Schickerling and uMkhonto weSizwe Party MP David Skosana, both of whom recently laid criminal charges against individuals central to the enquiry.
Evidence leader and senior counsel Norman Arendse revealed that Skosana had filed a criminal complaint in July
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