Overview
- Major-General Mary Motsepe testified that after being moved to SAPS head office, the 121 PKTT dockets received inspections only and no substantive investigations, and that five cited arrest warrants lacked full prosecutorial or magistrate sign-off.
- Lt-Col Ntate Khumalo described a rushed, messy handover that saw only 92 dockets reviewed, two later found to have been missed, and a drop in PKTT staffing from 98 to 56 by August with families complaining about lost progress.
- Motsepe said the task team should not have been disbanded without consultation ahead of elections and noted the Pretoria audit could have been done in KZN, while confirming the dockets were returned to the PKTT in August.
- Beginning his two-day appearance, businessman Brown Mogotsi said he has been an SAPS informant since 1999 and alleged that Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala bribed KZN commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, assertions the commission is testing.
- Mogotsi further claimed Crime Intelligence identified Matlala as “John Wick,” and allegations about roughly R500,000 in ANC-linked travel funding and links to senior police figures remain disputed and under scrutiny.