Mchunu felt IPID was targeting him in Nkosi’s killing: Nkabinde

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s Chief of Staff Cedric Nkabinde Nkabinde is giving evidence in Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee in Cape Town on November 13, 2025.

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s Chief of Staff Cedric Nkabinde says Mchunu felt the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) was targeting him instead of focusing on the murder of his security detail Xolani Nkosi.

Nkabinde is currently testifying before Parliament’s Ad Hoc committee, which is established to look into KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the justice system.

Mkhwanazi testified that Nkabinde had links with a businessman Brown Mogotsi.

Evidence leader Adv Norman Arendse SC asked Nkabinde about allegations that he assisted Mchunu in relation to charges that were brought against him for defeating the ends of justice in relation to Nkosi’s murder.

Nkabinde say, “It was round about the year of 2017 where we received a complaint from Minister Mchunu at IPID, in that complaint Minister Mchunu was complaining about progress of a murder case of Xolani, Xolani was one of his security detail while he was a premier, that the murder of Xolani is not happy with progress, that they are always close to leading to the perpetrator ut the police are not taking that direction and in fact they now regard him as suspect, so he said that he suspects there is harassment by police, this which were the Hawks targeting him instead of pursuing the murder case, so he felt that there is something untoward the behaviour of the police hence he reported it in the ICD (Independent Complaints Directorate.”