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Hawks head Lt-Gen Godfrey Lebeya fielded tough questions after the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation press briefing on Tuesday.

Lebeya had called the briefing to outline and take stock of milestones achieved since his appointment in 2018. This was the first of its sort but the Hawks now intend to hold a briefing to correlate with the SA Police Service quarterly crime stats.

“Up to today we’ve arrested 50% of the people who played a role — I won’t indicate who the others are and I won’t rank them [in terms of their public standing]. In court they can be judged in terms of their role. We are not swayed by political authority.”“The final indictment will be determined by the NPA — these are preliminary charges on the accused, the investigations have not been completed. The final charge sheet is to be decided upon.

“As indicated, we have over 22,000 cases so I haven't mentioned each case we are dealing with. Most of the cases [I mentioned] have been finalised,” he responded. In terms of the West Rand illegal mining operations, Lebeya said the directorate had intervened when it arranged the “takedown” operation at the beginning of the month with police and other stakeholders. More than 40 men were arrested in the raid that saw one alleged “zama zama” killed.

 

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