KwaZulu-Nata provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and deputy commissioner Major-Gen Phumelele Makoba said all their meetings with the SANDF were on record.Details of meetings at a five-star hotel with ex-defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and SA National Defence Force members, requests for more officers on the ground and the circumstances of Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s paternity leave “contradicted” testimony that he was uncooperative during the July unrest.
Mkhwanazi said he requested reinforcements from the national police department on July 2, when he sensed the angry mood in Nkandla after the Constitutional Court ruling to jail former president Jacob Zuma. Whoever organised the unrest took time to research our security force and knew our shortcomings. We had already communicated and requested additional deployments.After his requests for reinforcement, 174 officers arrived from other provinces on July 3, 315 on July 11 and 278 on July 13.
“I accepted that I wouldn’t be there due to what was happening in the province. My wife made peace with it and understood because she is in the police force,” he said. “The former minister came here and indicated a lack of cooperation and that her colonel was not being furnished with intelligence from us. We have it all on record. All our meetings were documented,” he said.
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