By Johnathan Paoli
The Madlanga Commission heard harrowing testimony on Monday from Witness A, who described how the investigating team probing the 2024 murder of Q-Tech engineer Armand Swart operated under a constant sense of danger and intimidation.
According to Witness A, the team’s fears were validated after a threat assessment allegedly confirmed that their lives were in “extreme danger”.
“The purpose of the threat assessment was to evaluate the scale of threat that we were facing. We never received the results. Later, we learned that the threat level was high. We were feeling scared. We were feeling really, really scared,” Witness A testified.
From the moment of their first meeting with head of investigations, Major General Richard Shibiri, the officers felt uneasy.
Despite his deep unease, Witness A said he initially gave Shibiri “the benefit of the doubt.”
A week later, he and other members of the Swart team
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