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[FILE IMAGE]: Eulogy by the Minister of Police, Mr Senzo Mchunu, at the Official Funeral of Constable Boipelo Senoge on 8 May 2025, Bloemfontein.
ActionSA is calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to take action against Police Minister Senzo Mchunu following explosive allegations by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. The party is picketing outside SAPS provincial headquarters demanding urgent action to what is calls a deepening crisis within the country’s criminal justice system.
Mkhwanazi accused senior police officials including Mchunu of meddling in police operations and having links to criminal syndicates.
“South Africans want to see the president making a firm stance. We want to see a suspension. We cannot have someone who comes to the portfolio committee like the minister and lie blatantly to South Africans with regards to his affiliations with some of these people that he’s been working with. We do have hardcore evidence. What more will it take for Cyril Ramaposa to put South Africans first? I would have expected right now we don’t need the president physically in the country to take a decision. There is technology. Why do we have to wait for this long for Cyril Ramaphosa to show that South Africans comes first?” asks Dareleen James, Action SA’s member of Parliament.
Meanwhile KwaZulu-Natal ActionSA Chairperson, Zwakele Mncwango says they do not support the call for the establishment of a commission of enquiry to investigate these allegations. He says this usually bares no fruits leading to wasteful expenditure.
“They must face jail. They must go through the prosecution processes like everyone else. Why must we have commissions and waste money because the report will go to the president and the president will then hide the reports like any other commission? So, therefore, we are saying when any South Africans, when they commit crimes, they face the might of the law and these individuals, they must face the law like everybody else. They must go to court and respond to these allegations in a court of law, not in a commission,” says Mncwango.
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