Chief Superintendent Kelebogile Thepa

spokesperson for the department

Chief Superintendent Kelebogile Thepa is a senior female officer in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD), having previously served as its spokesperson and head of media and public relations. Her career within the EMPD included postings at Tembisa Precinct, the Freeway Unit, and the Training Academy in KwaThema as an instructor, before she became a shift commander at the Winnie Mandela Precinct. She was later redeployed as precinct commander at OR Tambo International Airport. During the commission’s proceedings, testimony indicated that Thepa had received information suggesting three vehicles on a specific list were registered with the EMPD, and that she had emailed that she would forward video clips relating to a particular incident.

335 claims0 scheme(s)4 contradiction(s)

What the record shows (335 total claims — 134 substantive shown)

4 contradictions on the record

◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited◆ Cross-witness

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Same officer described as both not suspended and on suspension; cannot both be true simultaneously.

Day 30Commissioner Revo Spies“Another Chief Superintendent Thipa also have been arrested and not suspended”

Day 33Lt-Col Thepa“you had been on suspension”

◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited

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Same entity's reporting line stated as Office of Chief of Police vs Colonel Du Plessis; mutually exclusive direct superiors.

Day 33Lt-Col Thepa“I am still reporting in the Office of the Chief of Police for now.”

Day 33Lt-Col Thepa“I am reporting to Colonel Du Plessis”

◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited

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A states she sent things to media; B states nothing was sent—directly contradictory about same sending action.

Day 43Commissioner Mkhwanazi“That time, Kelebogile Thepa, as the media officer, she sent these things to media, you see.”

Day 43Commissioner Mkhwanazi“but there was nothing that was sent.”

◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited

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Being passed out (unconscious) cannot coexist with continuing to see everything happening at the same time.

Day 33Lt-Col Thepa“I had passed out”

Day 33Lt-Col Thepa“I continued seeing every – everything that was happening I had saw”