WATCH: ‘Get ready, you lying crook’, Cedric Nkabinde details alleged threat from Paul O’Sullivan

By Marcus Moloko

Cedric Nkabinde, chief of staff to suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu, told Parliament’s ad hoc committee on Wednesday that private forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan had threatened him.

The committee is probing allegations of underworld infiltration and political interference of the criminal justice system, claims first made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi in July.

Nkabinde’s claims dated back to a 2018 meeting at which O’Sullivan, representatives of the Democratic Alliance and AfriForum, and a journalist, allegedly discussed removing former national police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane.

Nkabinde told the committee, he received a new message on his phone, which he said was from O’Sullivan and which he regarded as a threat.

He read the message aloud.