Sello presses Mchunu on contradictions between PKTT and other SAPS task teams

By Johnathan Paoli

The Madlanga Commission resumed on Friday with suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu facing questioning over what evidence leader Adv Mahlape Sello SC said were “inconsistencies” in his reasoning for disbanding the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) while other comparable task teams and long-running operations continued to function.

Sello returned to the minister’s controversial New Year’s Eve letter ordering the PKTT to be disestablished “immediately”.

She said that the decision followed meetings in November 2024, yet Mchunu only submitted minutes of a 1 November meeting.

When pressed, he conceded that although his letter demanded immediate disestablishment, he had not designed any actual process to carry it out.

Instead, he said he had “in mind engagements going forward”.

Commissioner Sesi Baloyi highlighted the fact that there had been no specific review of the PKTT before its termination.

Mchunu admitted as much, confirming that only broader assessments of murder and