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Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has accused KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi of unlawful, prosecutable conduct, claiming Mkhwanazi interfered with investigations into complaints he had lodged against former acting national police commissioner Gen Khomotso Phahlane.
Testifying before the Madlanga commission of inquiry on Monday, O’Sullivan said the interference began long before Mkhwanazi’s explosive July 2025 media briefing.
He said the penetration of the criminal justice system by criminal elements is nothing new, adding Mkhwanazi had been aware of the issue for years rather than discovering it last year, suggesting Mkhwanazi was complicit in the interference.
“If you want to be a whistleblower, you must be a whistleblower with clean hands,” O’Sullivan said.
In his testimony, O’Sullivan referenced a January 16 2026 affidavit by Humbulani Khuba, provincial head for the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) in Limpopo. The statement is built on a 2020 affidavit prepared for the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture that was never finalised.
O’Sullivan lodged a corruption and money laundering complaint against Phahlane with Ipid in 2016. However, he noted the initial investigations were ineffective because Ipid was “captured” at the time, and alleged Phahlane made attempts to derail the probe.
Khuba, who headed the Ipid task team investigating Phahlane at the time, detailed Mkhwanazi’s...
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