Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya has testified at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that he is being politically targeted by the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.
Sibiya, who was suspended as the Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection in September last year, is at the centre of corruption allegations made at the commission.
Sibiya explains, “The same MK statement is being used by a Brigadier to apply for a search warrant when my house was raided. The same Mk is the one that also came and marched against me at head office. As I’m sitting in the office, you hear people doing [marching] in the street, this Mk Party.
“Then you hear, you get TikTok messages that say, you touch Mkwanazi [KwaZulu-Natal provincial police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi], you touch us, you’ll see another July address you’ve never had. There were such messages that were coming. Now, here I’m sitting with a situation where I’m being tackled politically as well,” he says.
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‘False travel kilometres’
Sibiya claims that among a long list of allegations levelled against him was that he had defrauded the South African Police Service by claiming false travel kilometres. He says he was later vindicated by a court of law.
According to Sibiya, the allegations were linked to two of his luxury private vehicles, which he had registered for use in police operations.
He states that the charges of claiming for false travel kilometers were part of the scheme to tarnish his name and reputation as a high-ranking officer, adding that considering the engine capacity of his vehicles, he actually claimed less than what he was supposed to.
