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News24 reports that the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) acting head, Julius Mkhwanazi, has applied for and been granted special leave. A metro spokesperson confirmed this on Thursday, but did not divulge why the top cop would be absent from work.
Mkhwanazi’s decision to apply for special leave, however, comes on the back of allegations made in the Madlanga Commission last week by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. The KwaZulu-Natal top cop told the commission that tender kingpin Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala had been enjoying extraordinary privileges from law enforcement in Ekurhuleni. He accused the EMPD acting head of facilitating the registration of several vehicles belonging to Matlala in the name of the metro police department while using government funds to cover the costs.
The allegations extended further, with claims that these vehicles were unlawfully fitted with blue lights intended exclusively for municipal law enforcement vehicles. Mkhwanazi said this clearly violated the National Road Traffic Act. “It’s an emergency light; it’s a warning light. But this was not only done by Matlala privately [with a] service provider, but it was done by law enforcement of Ekurhuleni,” he claimed.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Noxolo Sibiya & Iavan Pijoos at News24 (subscription / trial registration required)
- Read too, Ekurhuleni council rejects motion to suspend EMPD deputy chief Mkhwanazi, at EWN
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