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Warrant Officer Karl Sander told the Madlanga Commission how Maj-Gen. Lesetja Senona created a hostile and toxic work environment. Hawks warrant officer in KZN, Karl Sander, told the Madlanga Commission that Maj-Gen.

Lesetja Senona subjected him to a polygraph test over a stolen coffee machine and later removed a senior narcotics officer from the drug unit, “My only safe space was my coffee machine, and then they stole my coffee machine inside the DPCI… It’s still so annoying,” Sander testified on Monday. Sander, with more than four decades of policing experience, testified about what he described as a toxic and hostile relationship with Senona. Sander is continuing his testimony on Tuesday, focusing on drugs.

His evidence forms part of the commission’s investigation into the theft of a large cocaine consignment from aHawks storage facility in Port Shepstone in November 2021. Sander alleged that Senona pushed a senior narcotics officer out of the South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau and later transferred him from frontline drug enforcement duties to an office-based role. He told the commission that he was accused of supplying or facilitating narcotics to nightlife syndicates in Florida, Gauteng, but said he was never informed of the outcome of any investigation.