{"id":93773,"date":"2025-12-03T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:03:32","slug":"mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019","title":{"rendered":"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), and several other task teams, should have been disestablished as far back as 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Mchunu briefly appeared before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He provided context into why the PKTT shouldn\u2019t exist, claiming it was a temporary task team that shouldn\u2019t have lived beyond six months, let alone six years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the former national police commissioner, Khehla Sitole, allegedly signed off on a work study that should have seen the PKTT disestablished and absorbed into the murder and robbery unit.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2024, police launched an investigation into the progress of the implementation of the work study and found that several task teams, including the PKTT, were still operating.<\/p>\n<p>Mchunu revealed that the investigation and subsequent report identified the following: \u201cMultiple task teams operating without monitoring, without coordination without budgetary accountability, including the political murder team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He claims National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola was in support of the implementation of the work study, but took a full year to sign off on it after certain unions delayed the process.<\/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. Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), and several other task teams, should have been disestablished as far back as 2019. Mchunu briefly appeared before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria on Tuesday. He provided context into why the PKTT shouldn\u2019t exist, claiming it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":93772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-93773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019 - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), and several other task teams, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), and several other task teams, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-03T15:40:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-03T16:03:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1764764972.551276.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-03T15:40:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-03T16:03:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019\"},\"wordCount\":206,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1764764972.551276.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019\",\"name\":\"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019 - South Africa\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1764764972.551276.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-03T15:40:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-03T16:03:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), and several other task teams, ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1764764972.551276.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1764764972.551276.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":630,\"caption\":\"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019 - South Africa","description":"Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), and several other task teams, ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019","og_description":"Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), and several other task teams, ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019","og_site_name":"South Africa","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2025-12-03T15:40:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-12-03T16:03:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1764764972.551276.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019","datePublished":"2025-12-03T15:40:17+00:00","dateModified":"2025-12-03T16:03:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019"},"wordCount":206,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1764764972.551276.jpg","keywords":["South-Africa"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019","name":"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019 - South Africa","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1764764972.551276.jpg","datePublished":"2025-12-03T15:40:17+00:00","dateModified":"2025-12-03T16:03:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), and several other task teams, ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1764764972.551276.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1764764972.551276.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"caption":"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mchunu-says-pktt-shouldve-been-disestablished-in-2019#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mchunu says PKTT should\u2019ve been disestablished in 2019"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/","name":"South Africa","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}