By Johnathan Paoli
MKP members of Parliament mounted a sustained and heated challenge to the analysis presented by Jean Redpath of the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), accusing her of misleading the committee by using general murder statistics to assess the performance of the now-disbanded Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).
The confrontation unfolded during the ad-hoc committee’s hearings on public admissions, with MKP MP Sibonelo Nomvalo leading a forceful interrogation of Redpath’s written submission, particularly paragraph 20, which notes that murders in KwaZulu-Natal rose from about 4,395 in 2018/19 to 6,947 by 2022/23.
Nomvalo argued that the figures were being improperly used to suggest that the PKTT had failed.
“Because my problem here is that you are making an assessment on the performance of the task team, right? And in your assessment, you are using wrong figures. Is that not unfair?” he asked.
Nomvalo insisted that the task team’s mandate was
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