Suspended EMPD head details criminal cases involving members of disbanded unit

Suspended head of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Isaac Mapiyeye has provided details of several criminal cases involving members of a disbanded unit, including murder.

Mapiyeye has been continuing with his testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, sitting in Pretoria, on Friday.

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Mapiyeye said there are at least five criminal cases registered against three members of the former Special Weapons and Tactical (SWAT) unit.

The unit was under the leadership of acting EMPD head Brigadier Julius Mkhwanazi, who is accused of having links to criminally accused tender tycoon Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala.

One of these cases relates to the 2022 murder of a man in Brakpan, whose body was later retrieved from a river by police.

“These cases involve the criminal conduct of three members of EMPD, and they are from a former team, which was called SWAT, which was headed by Brigadier Mkhwanazi.”

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