Suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya is pulling no punches in his testimony at the Madlanga commission, exposing everyone who testified against him.
On Thursday, he denied receiving money from Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala and Katiso Molefe through Witness F.
Although he admitted to having a personal relationship with him, he said that Witness F seemed to have an even closer relationship with Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection Lieutenant General Hilda Senthumule.
“I do have a video material that I can actually play if need be, but I do have one that shows the relationship and how close they are. And then even in a party, a birthday party, where they are together, I do have those,” he told the commission.
Sibiya further claimed Senthumule knew Matlala. The tenderpreneur was invited to the Saps Excellence Awards in 2024, allegedly at Senthumule’s instruction.
In fact, Matlala donated 10 refrigerators to be given to the awarded officers, claimed Sibiya.
He further alleged that Senthumule personally benefited from Matlala as he paid for her BBL.
Senthumule and Sibiya on PKTT disbandment
On Wednesday, Sibiya said the decision taken by suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu to disband the political killings task team (PKTT) did not come as a surprise to him. Neither should it have come as a surprise to national police commissioner Fannie Masemola, he said.
In November last year, Senthumule criticised the disbandment and said the Saps owed South Africa an apology.
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On Thursday, Sibiya essentially accused Senthumule of being two-faced, saying the woman who testified before the commission in November was not the same woman he had spoken to on the phone about the matter.
Sibiya’s recorded call with Senthumule
Sibiya played a recording of the alleged call between him and Senthumule, in which she had nothing good to say about KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, Masemola and Crime Intelligence boss Dumisani Khumalo.
“On numerous occasions during telephonic conversations between General Senthumule and myself, she was openly critical of the PKTT. In particular, I recall a telephone conversation in which General Senthumule expressed the view that the PKTT was untouchable and alleged that the task team was being used to syphon the budget allocated to it,” said Sibiya.
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“She further indicated that she did not believe that the PKTT genuinely engaged in effective policing or delivered a meaningful investigative outcome.
“I know that the kind of a person who came here before the commission and testified, and I want the commission to hear the same person, the different language the same person is now talking.
“When she says, mene mene tekel, she’s actually referring to the national commissioner and says the national commissioner is imene mene. [The phrase Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin appears in the Bible and is translated as ‘God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians].”
Masemola ‘told me’
Sibiya told the commission that he recorded his calls with Senthumule because Masemola had given him information about what she said about the suspended general.
“In going to confront her, I realised that if I were to go confront her, she might come back and say, I came to threaten her, I did this, and I did that. And so I realised that that might be dangerous. So I went straight home. I called her, but I chose to make sure that at least let me record the conversation so that tomorrow, even when she makes allegations, I’m protected. That’s the sole reason why I had to record that.”
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