Overview

• National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola told Parliament there are shortfalls in SAPS vetting and said the force has asked the Special Investigating Unit to conduct independent vetting.
• A task force and the National Intervention Unit searched Shadrack Sibiya’s Centurion home and took a laptop and four phones, with SAPS saying it was not aware of any arrest.
• Sibiya, who remains suspended over alleged interference in the KZN Political Killings Task Team, said he felt betrayed and plans to appear before the parliamentary committee on Monday.
• KwaZulu-Natal commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi urged MPs to investigate forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan, citing a claim that IPID operations were planned at O’Sullivan’s residence.
• Mkhwanazi told MPs that journalists who spread sensitive or false information and MPs who mishandle leaked intelligence should face jail, drawing a strong condemnation from SANEF as a chilling attack on press freedom.