By Johnathan Paoli
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, testifying before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday, said suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu may have acted unlawfully – and was possibly misled – when he disbanded the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) and mishandled its sensitive criminal dockets.
Mkhwanazi’s evidence laid bare the turmoil surrounding the unit’s abrupt dissolution, painting a picture of confusion, political interference, and threats to the integrity of investigations into some of the country’s most high-profile and violent cases.
At the centre of his account were 121 criminal dockets once under custody of the PKTT. Instead of being returned to their originating police stations after the unit’s closure, the files were redirected to the national police office in Pretoria.
They were only later sent back to KwaZulu-Natal, where, according to Mkhwanazi, they were found to be intact.
“I want to stress that the files came
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