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Day 40

28 November 2025

Record: Official record ↗

Who testified

Subjects discussed

👤 Lt Gen Senthumule🏛 South African Police Service👤 Mr. Shadrack Sibiya👤 Lt Gen Samuel Dumisani Khumalo👤 Sehlahle Fannie Masemola👤 Maj-Gen Motsepe👤 Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi🏛 Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL)

5 conflicts flagged on this day

◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited◆ Cross-witness
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National Task Team Investigating Political Related Cases in KZN
A attributes establishment to Ministers' policy via National Commissioner; B says solely by President's intervention—mutually exclusive origins.
Day 40Lieutenant General Hilda Khosi Senthumule“leading to the National Commissioner now establishing the PKTT.”
Day 44Minister Senzo Mchunu“this was solely established through the intervention of the President”
◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited
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Lt Gen Senthumule
A claims only one call on 27 March 2025; B references a Motsepe call on 23 October 2025, contradicting the 'only call' assertion.
Day 40Lieutenant General Hilda Khosi Senthumule“the only call, I have to you, 27 March 2025”
Day 40Lieutenant General Hilda Khosi Senthumule“General Motsepe called me on the 23rd of October 2025”
◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited
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Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
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”
◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited
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Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
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”
◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited
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National Task Team Investigating Political Related Cases in KZN
disbandment authority
One says a Minister alone (or the committee) can disband; another says the Minister could not decide on his own — incompatible on unilateral ministerial authority.
Day 40Lieutenant General Hilda Khosi Senthumule“So, I mean that he could not just decide on his own to do it.”
Day 45Adv Khumalo SC“therefore it can only be disbanded by a Minister or by that committee”
“This was done without the authority of the National nor the”

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