KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lt-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says he will prove that the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) within the NPA arrested the head of Crime Intelligence, Lt-General Dumisani Khumalo, as a counter attempt to stop a criminal investigation in Gauteng.

Mkhwanazi is appearing before Parliament’s Ad Hoc committee set up to investigate allegations around national security.

The committee was established to assess wide-ranging allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption, and political interference within the criminal justice system, that Mkhwanazi made in July.

Mkhwanazi again repeated that IDAC, headed by Advocate Anthea Johnson, has a rouge element inside it and that if he gets an opportunity, he will prove that Khumalo’s arrest was not about an unlawful appointment, as was alleged by the directorate.

“If I have opportunity to sit where you’re sitting and I can cross question Adv Johnson, I will prove to you it’s a lie, if that’s what she told you. The arrest of Khumalo is a project to stop criminal investigations in Gauteng. The letter from the minister to disband PKTT is a project to stop criminal investigation in Gauteng,” says Mkhwanazi.

Meanwhile, political analyst Professor Dirk Kotze says it will be important to see how the Madlanga Commission and Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee will move forward and avoid the perception that they are duplicating one another following Mkhwanazi’s evidence today.

Kotze says Mkhwanazi has presented explosive details that went further than he did at the Madlanga Commission.

“I think it’s very interesting to see how the two institutions, the Parliamentary Committee on one hand and the Madlanga Commission (on the other), how they are going to position themselves so that it doesn’t seem like a duplication of work and that also the conclusions that they will reach in the end. They have to be careful that they (don’t) contradict each other. So, I think it’s going to be interesting I would say having these processes running concurrently and to what extent it’s going to bring for the public in general and also to those institutions such as the NPA or others, to what extend they will have clear messages and conclusions of what must be done,” says Kotze.

Mkhwanazi’s testimony before Ad Hoc Committee: Prof Dirk Kotze