Fannie Masemola says SAPS political killings task team has found it ‘easier’ to enrol cases

JOHANNESBURG - Since the explosive allegations of corruption in pockets of law enforcement, National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola, said the South African Police Service (SAPS) political killings task team has found it ‘easier’ to enrol cases.

Last month, KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi held a media briefing, where he made bombshell allegations about the rot in the country’s police, judicial and political sectors.

The allegations again took centre stage at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Friday, where acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia was being sworn in.

One of the allegations made by KZN Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi was that the SAPS political killings task team was unduly stripped of resources and case dockets.

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Since that briefing, the team has made several high-profile arrests, particularly in the case of the late ANC Youth League Secretary General Sindiso Magaqa and in the murders of DJ Sumbody and whistleblower Armand Swart.

National Police commissioner Fannie Masemola said it's clear something has shifted.

“There was quite a lot of problems across the criminal justice system so certain areas there has been some easiness of some sort, I wouldn’t know why, but the enrollment of cases at some point was a problem, but now the cases are being enrolled, hence you see them doing quite tremendous work.”

Masemola has reiterated that he never signed off on the disbandment of the political killings task team, and it continues to operate.