The Madlanga Commission has heard how attempted murder accused Vusimuzi Cat Matlala used his influence to attain the identities of two police investigators known as Witness A and B.
Witness C testified before the Commission yesterday that Matlala alleged that Police Minister Senzo Mchunu engaged State Security on his behalf, and used surveillance devices to obtain details of the vehicles of members of the Political Killings Task Team who were investigating him.
He told us that the minister engaged state security on his behalf and utilized grabber machines in order to pick up the identities of the SAPS officials investigating him. Mr Brown Mogotsi thereafter sent him the vehicle registration numbers of the vehicles that came to his property. Mr Matala disclosed that this is how he came to know the identities of the two officers who played a key role in the operation.