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Day 64

20 February 2026

Who testified

Subjects discussed

👤 Mr. Shadrack Sibiya🏛 National Task Team Investigating Political Related Cases in KZN (2024/2025 request)👤 Adv Hassim SC👤 Advocate Sesi Baloyi, SC🏛 South African Police Service👤 Sandile Khumalo🏛 SAPS Internal Investigative Team (Masemola)👤 Lt Gen Senthumule

7 conflicts flagged on this day

◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited
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National Task Team Investigating Political Related Cases in KZN
Claim A says traditional leaders mandate extended March 2024; Claim B says traditional killings extended only in April 2024—same event, conflicting dates.
“In March 2024, the PKTT’s mandate was further extended to include”
Day 64Chairperson“the mandate to do political cases, I am sorry, traditional killings is extended only in April of 2024”
◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited
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National Task Team Investigating Political Related Cases in KZN
A says they already investigated traditional leader cases before funding; B says mandate was only extended to include them from April 2024—contradictory.
Day 64Lieutenant General Sibiya“long before the request for funding, they were already investigating such cases of traditional leaders”
“the mandate of the Task Team had been extended from 1 April 2024 to include the investigation of cases involving the killings of Traditional Leaders i”
◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited
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National Task Team Investigating Political Related Cases in KZN
A says they were already investigating traditional leader killings before mandate; B says mandate was extended on 1 April 2024 to include those killings—cannot both be true.
Day 64Lieutenant General Sibiya“you know for a fact that they had already been investigating traditional leadership killings”
“the mandate of the Task Team had been extended from 1 April 2024 to include the investigation of cases involving the killings of Traditional Leaders i”
◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited◆ Cross-witness
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National Task Team Investigating Political Related Cases in KZN
Same task team's methodology: A calls it very raw and far from right, B affirms it works with reported successes—directly opposing assessments.
Day 64Lieutenant General Sibiya“The methodology they are using is very raw and far from being right”
Day 64Adv Baloyi SC“They have a methodology. They have reported successes”
◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited◆ Cross-witness
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National Task Team Investigating Political Related Cases in KZN
Same entity, same year 2016: one says it did not exist, the other says it did exist. Directly contradictory.
Day 64Adv Hassim SC“PKTT was not in existence in 2016”
Day 64Lieutenant General Sibiya“In 2016, it did exist”
◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited◆ Cross-witness
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National Task Team Investigating Political Related Cases in KZN
One says the methodology is not working; the other says it works and has reported successes—directly opposed assessments of the same task team.
Day 64Lieutenant General Sibiya“that methodology is not working”
Day 64Adv Baloyi SC“They have a methodology. They have reported successes”
◎ Likely — AI-assisted, cited
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He claims he understood the email as instructing implementation, yet accepts SS9 contains no such instruction—same document, incompatible.
Day 64Lieutenant General Sibiya“this is how I understood it to me”
Day 64Lieutenant General Sibiya“I accept that, Chair”

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