By Johnathan Paoli
Democratic Alliance MP Dianne Kohler-Barnard on Thursday rejected allegations by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi that she leaked or misused classified Crime Intelligence information.
She told parliament’s ad hoc committee that the allegations against her were based on a misunderstanding of oversight processes and timelines.
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Leading MPs through her affidavit and her experience in parliamentary oversight, Kohler-Barnard said Mkhwanazi’s allegations — that she raised secret intelligence matters in an open forum and obtained the information through the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI) — were “factually impossible”, because the communications he cited predated her membership of the intelligence oversight committee.
“All of the communications by me, at which I understand Lieutenant-General Mkhwanazi’s allegation to be levelled, occurred prior to my membership of the JSCI,” she told the committee.
Kohler-Barnard said
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