By Johnathan Paoli
Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya on Friday conceded that the handling of 121 case dockets belonging to the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) inevitably disrupted investigations.
Retired judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga, who is chairing the commission, pressed Sibiya on his January 2025 correspondence and subsequent instructions that resulted in the dockets being removed from investigators, stored in a repository, and later reassigned.
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Sibiya denied that the letter amounted to an implementation plan for disbanding the PKTT.
“I will simply not agree that there was a travesty of justice,” he said.
However, Madlanga pointed out that Sibiya had explicitly referred to an “implementation plan” in the letter.
Under questioning, Sibiya confirmed that a “repository” meant a place of storage and that PKTT dockets were intended to be kept there after being identified by Acting Deputy National Police
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