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Mchunu defends PKTT disbandmentHowever, he told the commission that in 2019, a South African Police Service SAPS work study found that PKTTs functions overlapped with those of the murder and robbery unit.
He added that in November 2019, SAPS approved the implementation of this work study, which included a recommendation to dissolve PKTT.
The Minister argued that the Task Team was established in 2018 via a political intervention by President Cyril Ramaphosa and was meant to be temporary. Its task was to address political killings in KwaZulu-Natal, and it has cost the government R435 million so far.
