Professor Mary de Haas to face tough questions in Parliament over alleged role in disbanding PKTT

KwaZulu-Natal-based researcher and crime activist Professor Mary de Haas will be grilled over her role in the directive to disband the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) when Parliament's police inquiry resumes on Tuesday.

De Haas will take to the stand to testify before the ad hoc committee investigating allegations of police corruption and interference after being mentioned by several witnesses, including KZN provincial commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.

The ad hoc committee inquiry continues after prematurely ending its hearing with Minster Senzo Mchunu’s chief of staff, Cedric Nkabinde, last week after he gave conflicting evidence.

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Mchunu told the committee during his testimony that several people wanted to engage him on policing matters including De Haas.

He told the committee that De Haas wrote extensively to the department to share her inputs and called for the disbandment of the PKTT and an audit of its funding.

Mkhwanazi, during his testimony, urged the committee to invite de Haas to give evidence.

“I want to challenge, and I want to request this ad hoc committee to invite Mary de Haas, not virtually, if she’s on a wheelchair, we’ll bring her here. But she must come here and sit in this chair and repeat what she wrote and then allow honourable members to ask her questions.”

De Haas’s testimony will be followed by Deputy National Commissioner Tebello Mosikili and head of procurement General Molefe Fani on Wednesday and Thursday respectively.

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