By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
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Deputy police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya will take the stand at the Parliament ad hoc committee on Monday, 13 October 2025.
Sibiya’s name has cropped up several times in two hearings — an ad hoc Parliamentary hearing and the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry — that are investigating accusations first made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi about three months ago.
Mkhwanazi held a press conference on 6 July 2025 during which he made several high-level accusations, including that a drug trafficking cartel had infiltrated policing and politics in South Africa.
Other allegations he made included that Sibiya played a role in trying to disband KwaZulu-Natal’s Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).
It was subsequently alleged that the plans to disband the task team were made to effectively protect criminal suspects.
Sibiya denied any wrongdoing, but was suspended.
Ad Hoc Committee chairperson Soviet Lekganyane said on Friday the public hearings will resume on Monday with Sibiya as a witness.
“Next week Monday and Tuesday, we have a date with General Sibiya,” Lekganyane said.
His testimony in the inquiry will take place against the backdrop of search and seizure warrants executed by the police to obtain electronic devices including laptops and cellphones at Sibiya’s house and the flat of Senzo Mchunu’s chief of staff Cedrick Nkabinde.
Both have condemned the seizure of their electronic equipment, with Nkabinde claiming his brother was assaulted after the police mistook his brother for him.
The team was stopped at the gate of Mchunu’s residence and was refused entry by the police providing guarding services there, prompting the minister’s lawyers to write to the Ad Hoc Committee.
Mchunu’s lawyers said the actions of the police was concerning as Mchunu and Nkabinde were the subject of the testimony tendered by Mkhwanazi in the parliamentary inquiry and Madlanga Commission of Inquiry.