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Giving testimony: Brigadier Lesiba Mokoena of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also known as the Hawks. Photo: X: Maggsnaidu

Hawks deny interference in Molefe’s arrest

But police officials tell commission about cases of interference

  • Eyaaz
6 min read
Katiso Molefe was arrested on 6 December 2024 — a month before the task team was disbanded by suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. (Screenshot)

Hawks interfered in Molefe arrest, says political killings task team member

Witness describes a clash between a KwaZulu-Natal-based task unit and a Gauteng-based Hawks unit

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
Katiso Molefe was arrested on 6 December 2024 — a month before the task team was disbanded by suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. (Screenshot)

Madlanga: ‘15 missing cartridge cases removed from ballistic report in Matlala and Molefe murder case’, says forensic expert

Police officials doctored a ballistic report to remove the link of a whistleblower to various murders

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
Former police minister Bheki Cele. (Paul Botes)

Cele: I would have avoided the Marikana massacre

Bheki Cele, who was police commissioner from 2009 until he was dismissed in 2011, criticised his successor Riah Phiyega’s handling of the 2012 tragedy

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
Rapper Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, popularly known as AKA, was murdered in Durban in February 2023. Photo: Supplied

Elaborate assassination plot revealed as six arrested for AKA murder

According to the KZN provincial police commissioner, Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, four of the suspects are wanted for other crimes

  • Khaya Koko
2 min read