South African Police Service SAPS National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola has ordered that 121 case dockets taken from the KwaZulu-Natal KZN Political Killings Task Team be returned to the province.
At a media briefing in July, KZN Provincial Commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi accused the Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection, Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya , of ordering the withdrawal of the dockets to the SAPS head office in March.
Mkhwanazi alleged that Sibiya did this without his or Masemolas authority. These case dockets have been sitting at the head office ever since without any investigation work done on them, he claimed. Sibiya has denied wrongdoing.