By Johnathan Paoli
Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu sought once again on Thursday to justify his controversial decision to disband the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), insisting that unequal resourcing within the South African Police Service (SAPS) could not be justified and that “murder is murder” regardless of a victim’s status.
But commissioners showed sustained skepticism, questioning whether the minister’s explanation of timing, process and motive aligned with the evidence.
Mchunu focused on the budget, arguing that SAPS faced mounting resource constraints, and that the National Treasury rules barred departments from diverting allocated funds between programmes.
To continue funding the PKTT at current levels, he said, would be “insensitive to the scarce resources we have”.
“The lesson I learnt and the principle I adopted and would want to stand by is that murder is murder. And that the shift from ordinary people on the ground wherein we are seen to
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