Nahlanhla Mkhwanazi: Chief Police, which toilet with politicians

A respected police officer shaved the South African government – and won many ordinary people – their explosive accusations that the organized criminal groups penetrated the upper echelons of the Presidential Administration Cyril Ramafos.

General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi did it in a dramatic style – dressed in military uniform and surrounded in masks by police officers automatic weapons, he called the press conference to accuse the Minister of Police Senz Machun in the availability of relations with the criminal bands.

He also stated that his chief closed the elite unit, investigating political murders after he discovered a drug cartel with tentacles in a business sector, a prison department, a persecution service and a judicial system.

“We are in combat mode, I directly take criminals,” he said in a live broadcast on national television earlier this month.

The South African has long been concerned about the organized crime, which, according to the presenter of the crime expert, Dr. Johan Burger, was at a “very serious level”.

One of the most famous cases was the police chief in South Africa, Jackie Selebi, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010 after he was convicted for receiving a bribe from the Italian Lord Drugs Glenoti, in exchange that he was blind to his criminal activity.

But the intervention of General Mkhvo -gas was unprecedented – for the first time, when a police officer publicly accused the cabinet member, not to mention the police, for communication with criminal gangs.

The reaction was instant. Machun dismissed the allegations as “wild and unreasonable” and stated that “ready to answer the allegations”, but the public rallied around General Mkhvo -Zavo -Zavo -Zavoza in Kwazul – despite the fact that the province was also a political lawn Machun.

#Handsoffnhlanhlamkhwanazi headed a list of trends on X, as a result of the government warning did not touch the 52-year-old officer.

“He (regarded as) a dishonest man who takes the bull behind the horn,” said Calvin Rafadi, an expert on a crime based at the University of South Africa Johannesburg, BBC.

General Mkhwanazi first earned a public passion for almost 15 years ago, when he suspended the Boss of the crime Boss Richard MDLULY, a close ally of the President Jacob Zuma, as the acting chief of South Africa.

Later, MDLULY was sentenced to five years in prison for abduction, assault and intimidation, justifying General Mkhvo -Zavoza’s opinion that he was a rotten apple in the police service.

General Mkhwanazi collided with a huge pressure on the MDLULI shield, and his political chiefs believe that the officer at the age of 38 would be “open to manipulation (but), they were rudely mistaken,” said D -R Burger.

Not only did he advance forward with the suspension of MDLULI, he also stated political intervention during parliament.

While this step brought him the sides of Brawn with the citizens, his public explosion did not make him any commitment, and he had entered almost a year to work and went back to the unknown for many years.

He made a dramatic return in 2018, when the then minister of the police bcheca appointed him to the main position in the provincial police, and one of his main tasks was the investigation of killings in the province, where competition for political power – and profitable tenders is fierce.

It was two weeks ago that this would be the gap of this investigative unit of Makun, which led to the explosive briefing of General Mkhvozyna, complaining that the 121 pier was collecting dust at the National Police headquarters.

“I will die for this (policeman) sign. I am not backing down,” said General Mkhvano, according to his reputation to be a brave and selfless officer who cannot be recorded by a corrupt political and business elite.

A poll by the Research Council on Human Sciences (HSCRC) shows that the confidence of society in the police is at least 22%,

Police forces have long suffered issues of political intervention, corruption and seemingly inability to effectively fight high crime.

The crisis has also reached the upper structures of force, with about 10 different police chiefs since 2000 – one has been convicted of corruption and the other is currently threatened with criminal liability.

“The dysfunction is at all levels,” Gareth Newham of the Pretoria of the Security Studies Institute (ISS) told the BBC, adding that “there are many dynamics in the police service to be corrected.”

But the finding of General Mkhvo -gas was not without controversy. He became the subject of investigation by a police guard, following the complaint that he had interfered with a criminal investigation into a high -ranking official.

However, last month it was removed from the prosecution, and the opposition fighters (EFF) stated that the complaint was “developed to disrupt a devoted officer who was nourishing in his fight against crime and corruption.”

General Mkhvo -Zavo -Zavo -Zavo -Zavoz team also criticized their difficult approach to the suspected crimes, which are sometimes shot dead in confrontations with officers under his command.

Mr. Newham said that he was considered a “police officer” with General Mkhvo -Zas, the public was ready to turn a blind eye to allegedly abusing officers because “they want to have a hero in the police.”

From MCHUNU, she sent the packaging, from the next month in South Africa, a new police minister – Fisten Kashial, a professor of law faculty, who comes from a well -known family activists against apartheid, and holds the post of Minister of Security Society, South Africa’s economic soul, from 2004 to 2009.

In an interview with NEWZRIOM AFRIKA, Kokalia said the decision of General Mkhvo -Zavo -Zavo -Various Agriculture was “very unusual”, but if they were true, “we can retrospective what he was fully justified by doing what he did.”

Thus, the confidence in General Mkhvo -gas is on the line – either he proves his allegations against the mush, or he can fall into the sword.

But as long as he secured his reputation a brave police officer who twice accepted his political chiefs.