By Johnathan Paoli
Former City of Johannesburg official Mesuli Mlandu has told Parliament’s ad hoc committee that suspended SAPS deputy national commissioner for crime detection Shadrack Sibiya was unlawfully elevated to a powerful post, with the process allegedly linked to a report he says was signed off during Herman Mashaba’s term as Johannesburg mayor.
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Testifying as a witness before the committee wrapped up its hearings for the week, Mlandu said Sibiya’s appointment as head of the City’s Group Forensic and Investigation Services (GFIS) was “rogue, clandestine and unlawful” and should, he argued, have triggered criminal scrutiny long before Sibiya’s later appointment and promotion within the South African Police Service.
“This is worse. You’ve got a bogus head of department operating in the City of Johannesburg for five years, controlling R580 million of public funds, and nobody is charged.
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