Suspended SAPS Organised Crime Unit head Major-General Richard Shibiri faced a torrid time at the Madlanga Judicial Commission of Inquiry this week. Suspended SA Police Service (SAPS) Organised Crime Unit head Major-General Richard Shibiri faced a barrage of questions from the Madlanga Judicial Commission of Inquiry this week and was forced to admit to lying under oath. Shibiri testified about his role in the aftermath of the arrest of suspects in the murder of Q-Tech engineer Armand Swart in Vereeniging in 2024 and his intervention, where he claimed he was speaking to the investigating officer in the matter on behalf of the family when he had initially indicated he required an update for the police’s top brass on the nature of the charges.
One of the suspects in the matter was Katiso “KT” Molefe, who Shibiri admitted was a member of the so-calledgroup of five businesspeople (Big Five cartel). He was cornered by Commissioner Advocate Sandile Khumalo SC, who asked why his response kept changing. “You can’t say now when the question is repeated, you say the other side is now the family.
It means you’re lying because you can’t have two different answers for the same question; it’s either the police or the family. The answer cannot change every minute or so,” Khumalo said. The commissioner continued: “When you said it was his side of the SAPS factions, you were lying to the commission.” Khumalo quickly interjected: “No, no.
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I’m asking you, don’t take anything. Were you lying to the commission when you said it is one faction within SAPS? Were you lying to this commission?” Shibiri said: “No, I was thinking about the factions, but I don’t have facts to support that.” Khumalo pressed the matter: “That can only mean your first answer was not truthful. Was it not truthful?”
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