Lt. genl. Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi (Photo: Phill Magakoe / AFP)
The investigative directorate against corruption (Idac) denies the allegations that there is a J50 warrant for Lt. Gen. Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, the KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner, has been issued with an arrest warrant.
“This information is false and is dismissed with the contempt it deserves,” says Henry Mamothame, spokesperson for Idac.
The directorate received several inquiries after allegations of a J50 warrant for Mkhwanazi’s arrest became known.
“These rumors are clearly beginning to disrupt and distract from the work of Idac, as well as the responsibilities that Gen. Mkhwanazi fulfills in the fight against crime,” says Mamothame now in response to the allegations.
Mamothame says the public is requested to be vigilant against false information that is spread on social media and that aims to destabilize and discredit law enforcement in the country.
Senzo Mchunu, Minister of Police. (Photo: GCIS / Siyabulela Duda).
Many members of the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) senior management have now already been suspended, fired or arrested since Mkhwanazi convened a media conference on July 6 last year and made public his suspicions about, among others, Senzo Mchunu, Minister of Police.
Mkhwanazi claimed, among other things, that the minister was guilty of alleged political interference in police investigations, especially the investigations into political murders.
Mchunu has since been placed on special leave and two separate commissions have been set up to investigate the damning allegations – the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into the alleged direct interference of organized crime in the police and other state security institutions and the parliamentary ad hoc committee to investigate the allegations separately from the Madlanga Commission.