By Johnathan Paoli
The Madlanga Commission’s afternoon session on Monday continued after lunch with testimony from Lieutenant Colonel Ntate Khumalo, a long-serving member of KwaZulu-Natal’s Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), who described the extreme violence, internal sabotage and life-and-death pressures faced by investigators probing political assassinations in the province.
Led by evidence leader and senior counsel Adila Hassim, assisted by advocate Thabang Pooe, Khumalo began by recounting how the PKTT became a target of the same violent networks it was mandated to dismantle.
He revealed that the PKTT survived three attacks, each involving shooting ambushes on officers while they were actively investigating political murders.
In all three incidents, the assailants were later found to include serving police officers, a revelation that stunned the commission.
“Certain police officers and guns were involved in the attacks,” he said, adding that this included an R5 rifle, a weapon allocated to SAPS members, used
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