Overview
- Senzo Mchunu admitted he ordered the Political Killings Task Team disbanded on December 31, 2024 without consulting National Commissioner Fannie Masemola.
- The commission argued Mchunu misinterpreted a 2019 work study that could not override the Inter-Ministerial Committee decision that created the unit.
- Mchunu handed over a confidential list of complainants alleging human-rights abuses by task team members, which the commission returned with instructions to seek legal advice on how to proceed.
- Under cross-examination, Mchunu defended the move as addressing duplication and inefficiency and said its work would be absorbed into broader structures, while noting the PKTT was the only one disbanded among roughly ten task teams.
- Questioned on consistency, Mchunu faced scrutiny for ordering a new Eastern Cape taxi-violence task team earlier in December 2024 as he denied claims he acted to shield suspects linked to Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala.