By Johnathan Paoli
Suspended Deputy National Commissioner of Crime Detection, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya, has launched a counterattack against KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, accusing him of “misleading the nation” over the fate of sensitive dockets from the disbanded Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).
Sibiya, appearing before Parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating corruption within the criminal justice system, said late on Monday night that Mkhwanazi’s claim that critical case files were “gathering dust” in Pretoria was “false, inflammatory, and calculated to create public outrage”.
“The public was told that I had taken over active investigations and locked them away. That was a lie. These were long-dormant dockets, some from as far back as 2018, that were already inactive when I was assigned oversight,” Sibiya said.
The feud between the two senior officers has erupted into one of the most serious public disputes within the South African Police Service (SAPS) in
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