Overview

• Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi filed criminal charges on July 7 accusing Police Minister Senzo Mchunu of ordering the disbandment of a unit that had examined more than 600 political murder cases.
• Mkhwanazi alleges Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya removed all case files from the investigation team and left them unexamined in his office.
• Minister Mchunu has denied the accusations as baseless insinuations made without evidence or due process.
• President Cyril Ramaphosa has described the dispute as a grave national security concern and vowed to address the matter upon his return from the BRICS summit in Brazil.
• Parliament has scheduled urgent debates and is weighing the creation of an independent commission to investigate the alleged obstruction of the political killings inquiries.