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Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi

Provincial Commissioner of Police in Kwa-Zulu Natal
Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is a senior South African Police Service officer who served as Acting Provincial Commissioner in KwaZulu-Natal in 2018, around the time the President announced an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC). His testimony before the Madlanga Commission focused on his oversight of a special operational approach and investigation strategy developed to address problems in the province, including a prosecution strategy. Mkhwanazi stated that as head of the province he revised the relevant plan, kept the National Commissioner informed of the strategy, and that a submission with budget implications for the task team was made by him. He remained responsible for the Political Task Team’s work even after moving to head office in 2019.
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What the record shows (1,020 total claims — 150 substantive shown)
10 contradictions on the record
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Cannot both not engage the journalist and give a full response to the journalist's question at the same time.
Day 3Lt Gen Mkhwanazi“I did not engage the journalist”
Day 3Lt Gen Mkhwanazi“I only gave a full response on the question he asked me”
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Claim A denies any involvement with the dockets while Claim B asserts he is their main custodian; both cannot be true of same dockets.
Day 34Major General Mary Cockey Motsepe“General Mkhwanazi said that he has got nothing to do with those dockets”
Day 34Major General Mary Cockey Motsepe“as a Provincial Commissioner, actually that docket belongs to him. He is the main custodian of the docket as a Provincial Commissioner”
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Claiming Khan most likely feeds him information contradicts denying having said Khan leaked any information; same referent and act.
Day 3Lt Gen Mkhwanazi“it is General Khan most likely that is feeding him with the information.”
Day 3Lt Gen Mkhwanazi“I did not say that General Khan has leaked any information”
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A claims Khan most likely feeds him information; B explicitly disclaims saying Khan is involved in leaking information—same referent, same act.
Day 3Lt Gen Mkhwanazi“it is General Khan most likely that is feeding him with the information.”
Day 3Lt Gen Mkhwanazi“I am not saying that General Khan is involved in these leakages of information to the members of Parliament and to the other people”
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A says he was instructed by authorities beyond him; B says he never received instructions from above—directly contradictory.
“instructed by authoriies ‘beyond’ him to withdraw disciplinary cherges end reinsfate Maluli”
“Gererel Mkhwanazi never received eny instructions from above”
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Same post period given two different start months: May vs January 2011 for Component Head: Specialised Operations.
“2011- 2011 (May to October) Component Head: Specialised Operations”
“2011 (January to October)”
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Cannot both not know how dockets reached Pretoria and have instructed their delivery to his office.
Day 40Lieutenant General Mkhwanazi“I do not know how those dockets got to Pretoria”
“the absence of 121 case dockets that was delivered to your office on 2025-03-26 on your instruction via Lieutenant Colonel Khumalo”
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Cannot accept/be responsible for dockets contradicts being their ultimate authority for the same referent.
“he indicated that he cannot accept the dockets or be held responsible for them.”
Day 40Lieutenant General Hilda Khosi Senthumule“the PC is the ultimate authority of the dockets”
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A says role held '2019 to date' (ongoing); B gives fixed end date 2021-03-31, contradicting ongoing tenure.
“2019 to date Divisional Commissioner. Operational Response Service”
“Duration 2019-08-01 to 2021-03-31”
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A says role held 2019 to date (ongoing); B says it ended 2021-03-31. Both cannot be true of same role's duration.
“• 2019 to date Divisional Commissioner. Operational Response Service”
“Duration 2019-08-01 to 2021-03-31”