{"id":255212,"date":"2025-10-13T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2025\/10\/13\/why-was-i-shut-out-it-was-weird-sibiya-slams-secrecy-around-pktt-saps-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:50:00","slug":"why-was-i-shut-out-it-was-weird-sibiya-slams-secrecy-around-pktt-saps-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2025\/10\/13\/why-was-i-shut-out-it-was-weird-sibiya-slams-secrecy-around-pktt-saps-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Why was I shut out? It was weird \u2014 Sibiya slams secrecy around PKTT | SAPS Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760421289_570_1280&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x67&#038;resize=1280x720.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>Suspended Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya has questioned his \u201cweird\u201d exclusion from the work of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT), despite being a senior in the South African Police Service (SAPS) and having top secret security clearance.<\/p>\n<p>Sibiya made the remarks before Parliament\u2019s ad hoc committee probing widespread corruption in the SAPS on Monday, labelling the task team\u2019s structure and operations as \u201cvery weird\u201d and \u201cdeeply concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the deputy national commissioner responsible for detectives, forensic services, and intelligence-led policing,\u201d Sibiya told MPs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I hold top secret clearance, why can\u2019t I be entrusted with knowing what this team is doing? What is so secret that I\u2019m not allowed to know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PKTT was formed to investigate a wave of politically linked assassinations, particularly in KZN.<\/p>\n<p>But Sibiya\u2019s testimony raised alarms about the opaque chain of command, with the task team reportedly bypassing standard investigative oversight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"iframeWrapper\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite being staffed largely by detectives, Sibiya revealed that the unit reported directly to Crime Intelligence via Lt-Gen. Dumisani Khumalo and then to the provincial commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis task team was working with a structure of only about five people who actually knew what was going on \u2014 the Minister, Khumalo, [Lt-Gen. Nhlanhla] Mkhwanazi, the National Commissioner [Fannie Masemola] and to a lesser extent Lt-Gen. [Godfrey] Lebeya,\u201d said Sibiya.<\/p>\n<p>Sibiya, appointed to his post in July 2023, said he was never formally briefed on the task team\u2019s operations, even though it allegedly fell under his division\u2019s mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an investigation function. When you talk about murder cases, you\u2019re talking about crime detection. That\u2019s detectives\u2019 work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The PKTT was disbanded abruptly in late 2024 \u2014 a move now at the centre of fierce political and legal controversy.<\/p>\n<p>It has widely been speculated that Sibiya played a role in the disbandment, an allegation he did not directly address in Parliament but implicitly challenged by questioning the task team\u2019s secretive configuration.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Commissioners do not have unilateral authority to manage or disband special police units like the PKTT.<\/p>\n<p>Recent testimony and public reports confirmed that the PKTT&#8217;s operational control falls under the national commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>The man who officially called for the unit\u2019s disbandment was the suspended Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated December 2024, Mchunu instructed National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola to shut down the PKTT.<\/p>\n<p>Why Mchunu made this decision remained unclear, but the fallout has been severe, with critics accusing SAPS leadership of undermining efforts to address politically motivated killings.<\/p>\n<p>But according to the letter, Mchunu said the PKTT did not add any value anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Sibiya stressed that the PKTT was never a permanent structure and operated outside conventional SAPS investigative protocols.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s acceptable that the provincial commissioner oversees provincial policing, but when murder investigations are happening through a special task team, it should be aligned under detectives,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mkhwanazi accused rogue political forces of sabotaging the fight against political killings and claimed Mchunu wasn\u2019t even the real author of the letter that disbanded the elite task team investigating them.<\/p>\n<p>kamogelo.moichela@iol.co.za<\/p>\n<p><strong> Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em>Get your news on the go. 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Sibiya made the remarks before Parliament\u2019s ad hoc committee probing widespread corruption in the SAPS on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11393,19254,2067,16318,6214,3893,1037,1060],"class_list":["post-255212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-inquiry","tag-pktt","tag-saps","tag-secrecy","tag-shut","tag-sibiya","tag-slams","tag-weird"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why was I shut out? 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