Africa-Press – South-Africa. Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga has labelled the transfer of 121 dockets from KwaZulu-Natal to Pretoria for inspection as “nonsensical.”
The judge weighed in after the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry heard on Monday that those instructed to audit the dockets didn’t understand why they were doing so.
In March, suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya issued an instruction for the dockets to be transferred to police headquarters in Pretoria.
Sibiya claimed he was acting on the instruction from National Police Commissioner Fanie Masemola, a claim Masemola has disputed during his testimony before the commission.
Questions around why an instruction was issued to have 121 dockets being investigated by the KZN Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) transferred to the South African Police Service (SAPS) head office for auditing have been raised by the commissioners at the Madlanga Commission.
On Monday, SAPS’s component head for serious and violent crime investigation, Mary Motsepe, testified that she was instructed to oversee the audit of the dockets.
Justice Madlanga could not understand why the dockets had to be transferred to Pretoria for auditing when it could have been done in KZN.
“Why could the auditing process not take place in KZN? Why did the dockets have to come up to head office for that simple process?”
The instruction for the dockets to be brought to Pretoria were given by Crime Intelligence head Dumisani Khumalo.
It’s understood that Sibiya instructed Khumalo tomanage the handover process of the dockets, as he is the project coordinator of the KZN PKTT.
During his testimony, Khumalo conceded he issued the instruction, a decision he claimed he later regretted.
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