{"id":95088,"date":"2026-01-31T19:33:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:53:46","slug":"shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told","title":{"rendered":"Shadrack Sibiya &#8216;is a serial law breaker&#8217;, Parliament told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The Parliament ad hoc committee investigating police corruption concluded its public hearings this week, with calls for Deputy Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya\u2019s removal.<\/p>\n<p>Mesuli Mlandu, the former executive director in the Johannesburg city manager\u2019s office made the final public submission, where he labelled Sibiya a \u201cserial law breaker\u201d and accused him of lying under oath.<\/p>\n<p>Mlandu testified that Sibiya\u2019s 2016 appointment as the head of Group Forensic and Investigations Services (GFIS) in the metro was irregular.<\/p>\n<p>The ad hoc committee\u2019s public hearings focused exclusively on Sibiya and his former role in the City of Joburg.<\/p>\n<p>Mlandu told the committee that Sibiya had also misled the committee during his testimony about an appointment that Mlandu approved.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the committee to recommend serious action against Sibiya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a prima facie fugitive from the law. That\u2019s the first allegation I\u2019m making. The second one is that he\u2019s a serial law breaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Mdumiseni Ntuli also expressed his fears about what would happen if the allegations against Sibiya are proven to be true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what frightens me, because it suggests that if anything we\u2019ve heard about Sibiya were to be confirmed to be true tomorrow, it therefore means that unless something drastic is done, we may wake up one day as a country having a national commissioner who is a national convenor of criminals in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee is expected to continue its public hearings next week before it calls the next witnesses.<\/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. The Parliament ad hoc committee investigating police corruption concluded its public hearings this week, with calls for Deputy Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya\u2019s removal. Mesuli Mlandu, the former executive director in the Johannesburg city manager\u2019s office made the final public submission, where he labelled Sibiya a \u201cserial law breaker\u201d and accused him of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":95087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-95088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","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>Shadrack Sibiya &#039;is a serial law breaker&#039;, Parliament told - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Parliament ad hoc committee investigating police corruption concluded its public hearings this week, with calls for ...\" \/>\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\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shadrack Sibiya &#039;is a serial law breaker&#039;, Parliament told\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Parliament ad hoc committee investigating police corruption concluded its public hearings this week, with calls for ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told\" \/>\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=\"2026-01-31T19:33:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-31T19:53:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/01\/sm_1769876571.901879.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\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Shadrack Sibiya &#8216;is a serial law breaker&#8217;, Parliament told\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-01-31T19:33:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-31T19:53:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told\"},\"wordCount\":276,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2026\/01\/sm_1769876571.901879.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/shadrack-sibiya-is-a-serial-law-breaker-parliament-told\",\"name\":\"Shadrack Sibiya 'is a serial law breaker', Parliament told - 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