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The Madlanga Commission has heard that last year’s July 6 briefing by General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi was prompted by the realisation that law enforcement was under siege from criminal syndicates.

This was revealed by the National Intelligence Coordinating Committee’s Ntandazo Sifolo, who testified before the commission on Thursday.

During the briefing, Mkhwanazi made shocking allegations against high-ranking police officials.

He also alleged that criminal syndicates had infiltrated the criminal justice system.

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Sifolo has told the commission that officials who tried to speak out about criminal influence were labelled corrupt.

“Dr Ntandazo Sifolo, when you realize that you no longer have any other way to deal with this matter because the institutions are so compromised to an extent that the public is beginning to believe, and innocent people who are doing the real work of national security are being targeted. Then you have to kick the chess table, and the more we try to work, the more, whenever we are trying to come out, we are told that it is because these are corrupt that’s why they are not doing this thing.”

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