By Johnathan Paoli
Forensic examiner Paul O’Sullivan told Parliament’s ad-hoc committee on Wednesday that a sworn affidavit he was given alleges KwaZulu-Natal police chief Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi organised an extra-judicial team to kill criminal suspects.
Being led in evidence by senior counsel Advocate Norman Arendse, O’Sullivan said the deponent claimed to have been part of the hit squad – allegedly consisting of some members of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).
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The deponent alleged that Mkhwanazi would attend extrajudicial killing scenes “with other police officers to clean it up” and that members were paid R20,000 a month in cash, for the killings. They allegedly operated in three groups of about 20 people, O’ Sullivan said.
He said the original sworn statement had been handed to the Independent Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) and the Independent Police Investigative
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