{"id":90244,"date":"2025-09-22T18:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-hears-masemola-admits-pressure"},"modified":"2025-09-22T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:42:39","slug":"madlanga-commission-hears-masemola-admits-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/madlanga-commission-hears-masemola-admits-pressure","title":{"rendered":"Madlanga Commission Hears Masemola Admits Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola has admitted that he didn\u2019t explicitly refuse the instruction to disband the political killings task team due to the immense pressure from Police Minister Senzo Mchunu.<\/p>\n<p>Testifying at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria on Monday, Masemola clarified that he wasn\u2019t in support of Mchunu\u2019s directive to disband the unit with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s alleged that Mchunu may have sought to dissolve the unit to protect criminal syndicates that were being investigated by the task team.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why he didn\u2019t explicitly challenge the minister\u2019s attempt to disband the task team, this was Masemola\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Madlanga: &#8220;You say the instruction was unlawful. So why obey it if you\u2019ve told us that you would not obey an unlawful instruction?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Masemola: &#8220;The position that we find ourselves as government officials, we go through things. If you were in my position and this minister is insistent, I ended saying: &#8216;If we do it your way, I will not accept, so let\u2019s rather do it my way.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola has admitted that he didn\u2019t explicitly refuse the instruction to disband the political killings task team due to the immense pressure from Police Minister Senzo Mchunu. 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