By Johnathan Paoli
Suspended deputy national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya has said that a “succession battle” within the South African Police Service (SAPS), not corruption, lies at the heart of the turmoil surrounding the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).
Testifying before Parliament’s ad-hoc committee about allegations of criminal infiltration of the justice system on Tuesday evening, Sibiya defended his integrity while under a barrage of questions from various MPs, insisting that the claims made against him by previous witnesses were “false and contrived”.
“The people of South Africa must begin to realise that someone is playing with people’s minds. The claims against me are false and contrived,” Sibiya declared, dismissing allegations that he acted improperly or colluded with dubious figures.
uMkhonto weSizwe Party MP Sibonelo Nomvalo asked pointed questions about Sibiya’s associations, particularly with controversial figures like alleged underworld figure Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala, a tenderpreneur who
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