Phone call between Witness B, Mbangwa played at Madlanga Inquiry – SABC News
A telephone recording between Witness B and Sedibeng District Commissioner Mbangwa Nkhwashu has been played at the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria.
Nkhwashu can be heard speaking to Witness B about how he has been instructed to get the dockets for Vereeniging Engineer Armand Swart’s murder case.
Witness B is testifying about the interference that she and Witness A have encountered after cracking the Swart case.
According to Nkwashu, the dockets were meant to be handed over to Gauteng Provincial Commissioner Tommy Mthombeni.
“Instruction from the PC, and collect all those dockets, including that docket of yours and go give it to him, and the instructions were given to us as district commissioners, and if we are not handing in those dockets to him, we’re going to be facing the disciplinary steps.”
Bail conditions
Witness B has told the commission how veteran police officer and murder accused Pule Tau violated his bail conditions weeks after being released.
Tau, who was charged alongside Musa Kekana and Tiego Mabusela for Swart’s murder, was initially arrested in April 2024.
He was later released on bail in August 2024, but later rearrested the following month for violating his bail conditions.
Witness B says, “By the first day, when I decided to go check on him, he was not at home. We found his son, who told us he went to work, and he is a person who will always go. I just knew there and there that we had a problem now. We applied for the search and seizure of his DVR because we learned that he had some cameras. Only to find that after he was not obeying his house arrest.”
Witness B says a conversation between her and Organised Crime Head Richard Shibiri on the three envelopes made her uncomfortable.
She says Shibiri told her he was aware of three envelopes available for the investigating officer, the prosecutor and magistrates on the Swart case.
The detective has testified about the interference investigators encountered from senior police officers after they solved the murder case of the engineer.
Both Witness B and Witness A have alluded to attempts at bribery from senior police officers to interfere in the investigation.
Witness B says, “For me, it just became uncomfortable because I didn’t think me and the general would have such a conversation because, according to me, it’s wrong. Even if maybe the general knows of that, he can’t tell me as a junior about it.”