Paul O’Sullivan joins dots, drops bombshell: “Here’s your proof - Mkhwanazi a crook, Trollip a liar”

Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has come out swinging—accusing KwaZulu-Natal police boss Lt. Gen. Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi of criminality and calling ActionSA’s Athol Trollip a liar. In an explosive 18-page dossier and this follow-up interview with Alec Hogg, O’Sullivan lays out his case: a police service captured at the highest level, a slush fund ballooning to R600 million, luxury gifts from shady suppliers, extrajudicial killings, and a nation dangerously fooled by a uniform. He joins the dots—and what emerges is nothing short of a bombshell.Sign up for your early morning brew of the BizNews Insider to keep you up to speed with the content that matters. The newsletter will land in your inbox at 5:30am weekdays. Register here.Support South Africa’s bastion of independent journalism, offering balanced insights on investments, business, and the political economy, by joining BizNews Premium. Register here.If you prefer WhatsApp for updates, sign up to the BizNews channel here..Watch here.Listen here.Read Paul O'Sullivan's statement in full below.MEDIA RELEASE BY PAUL O’SULLIVAN & FORENSICS FOR JUSTICE ON ATHOL TROLLIP, ACTION-SA & DIRTY COPS.TROLLIP / ACTION-SA PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR DIRTY COPS 2025-08-07 In this media release, I and Forensics for Justice, expose the overt public support by Trollip and Action-SA for Mkhwanazi, without even knowing anything about the man. Their unqualified support, comes on the back of Forensics for Justice call on 2025-07-06, for a Judicial Commission of Enquiry and the suspension of Masemola and Mkhwanazi. The Action-SA support for Mkhwanazi took two noticeable forms: -Outwardly saying “HANDS OFF MKHWANAZI” including public demonstrations of same. See attached Annexure A, showing Trollip / Action-SA blind support for Mkhwanazi.Attacking Paul O’Sullivan on social media, by publicly claiming “I still want to know how this guys has inveigled his way into safety and security system??” thereby initiating a campaign against Paul O’Sullivan, by alleging O’Sullivan is dishonest, when in truth it is Action-SA and Trollip who are dishonest, in order to protect Mkhwanazi.Meaning of inveigled = “to persuade someone to do something in a clever and dishonest way, when they do not want to do it.” That statement by Trollip is HIGHLY defamatory.I do not have a social media presence, but when Trollip’s unilateral campaign against me, in support of Mkhwanazi, was brought to my attention, I decided to take him on. When I took Trollip on, instead of admitting his dishonesty and apologising, he attacked me with further arrogant provocation and completely side-steps what I said to him. Not only is his conduct highly defamatory, but he also publicly opens the door for crooked cops to make another attempt on my life, to get me out of the way, as has been done many times in the past. O’SULLIVAN’S – ROLE IN SAFETY & SECURITY – IN MY OWN WORDSMy involvement in safety & security goes back FIFTY years. I was involved in law enforcement when Trollip was at primary school. By the time Trollip left high school, I had been shot on duty twice. The last time I was shot on duty was in 1996, and very nearly killed. I dispatched the gangster that shot me, with a single shot through the heart. As the new Constitution had just been passed, I was subjected to a yearlong murder investigation, then being cleared through ‘self-defence’. I then transferred to Border Policing. So, I clearly did NOT ‘inveigle’ my way into safety and security, it was a long career, in which I lost a lot of blood and nearly lost my life.In 2001, whilst working in the border police at Johannesburg International Airport, (now OR Tambo) I seized a consignment of counterfeit goods being imported by the infamous Glenn Agliotti. Then Commissioner, Jackie Selebi, unlawfully dismissed me from the police. I had taken up a position on the executive board of ACSA, as Group Executive of Safety & Security at the TEN major airports in South Africa. I also sat on the National Aviation Security Committee. I was in New York, with another Border Police Official, carrying out an aviation security audit at the time of 9/11 and saw firsthand what can go wrong in aviation security. I returned to South Africa and ramped up security at all the airports. My ramping up exercise, led me to discover a corrupt relationship between Khuselani Security, Commissioner of Police, Jackie Selebi and the then head of aviation security, who reported directly to me. The senior ACSA manager was fired, I cancelled the R100m a year contract with Khuselani Security, which they took to the high court with an urgent application against ACSA and lost. Thereafter I opened a criminal case against the owner of Khuselani Security for tax fraud, and he was sentenced to FIVE years in prison.A new CEO was appointed at ACSA. In late 2002, Selebi teamed up with that CEO, to get me out of my position. He did this by cancelling my security clearance, to sit on the National Aviation Security Committee, by fraudulently claiming I was a ‘foreign spy’. This resulted in my unlawful termination, with ACSA. I sued ACSA & Selebi and, after a few years, the matter was settled. Fortunately, when I emigrated to South Africa in the 1980’s, I obtained my residence/citizenship as a ‘person of independent means’ having a significant property portfolio, in SA and Europe. I took advantage of the FINRAND, and invested additional foreign funds in the country, all of it going into property investments. I believed in my new home, and still do!After leaving ACSA, I focussed on my property investments and contemporaneously set up a war-room, to investigate the corruption around Selebi. By late 2005, I had investigated and obtained volumes of evidence implicating Selebi in corruption and working with drug/counterfeit goods traffickers, as well as assisting in a cover up of the Brett Kebble murder. I handed all my evidence to the Scorpions. In early 2006, I became aware of a threat to murder my family, by agents of Selebi, so I moved my family overseas for their own safety, and bought a house for them to live in, whilst I dealt with the threat in South Africa. I felt competent enough, due to highly specialised training, to deal with the threat, but knew my family did not have my skills. By 2008, Jackie Selebi was charged by the Scorpions with fraud and corruption, based mostly on the complaint I had laid against him. The case was watertight and on 04 July 2010, Selebi was convicted on the charges and later sentenced to prison for 15 years. He did not serve a day! Because of the corrupt support given to Selebi by senior police and NPA officials, I decided I should also expose them to criminal investigation, as well. I opened cases against General Mokotedi, who had subsequently become head of Hawks in Gauteng, having been unlawfully appointed by General Ntlemeza. Apart from Mokotedi, I went after General Richard Mdluli, General Berning Ntlemeza, General Phahlane, all in the police / DPCI and from the NPA; Lawrence Mrwebi, Nomgobo Jiba & Shawn Abrahams. I took them on, over more than four years. It was no surprise to me that Mokotedi was one of those joining Trollip’s smear campaign against me.As a result of the criminal investigations against those named above, I was subjected to multiple false arrests, including being dragged off a plane with two of my minor children and assaulted in front of my 8- and 9-year-old daughters, then falsely imprisoned and tortured for three days and nights. My offices were raided with fraudulently obtained search warrants. I was arraigned on 65 trumped up charges, which led to me having to endure SIX criminal trials.A coordinated negative media campaign was launched against me by the Police and NPA, with Brigadier Sally de Beer, then Phahlane’s spokesman, issuing false media bulletins.I fought back, opened further multiple criminal cases against the dirty cops and prosecutors and over a period of THREE years, beat all the trumped-up charges finally leading to all the cases against me being dismissed, or withdrawn. This took up around 100 days on court preparation, plus 187 court days of my time, most of which were covered by the negative media campaign mounted by dirty cops and prosecutors. The personal costs ran into many millions of Rand.Due to the multiple criminal dockets I opened during those THREE years, all of those named were sent packing and many of them faced criminal charges but are playing the Stalingrad Strategy to drag out their trials, to this very day.So, I say to you Trollip; “You defamed and lied about me, by publicly claiming that I had dishonestly worked my way into safety & security.” You are a very dishonest individual!TROLLIP’S INTERVIEW ON BIZNEWS (see here for the dishonest interview)Trollip is NOT an honest man. I had his interview transcribed, and have carefully gone through the transcript, and counted no fewer than SEVENTEEN intentional lies by Trollip, all of which have been put to Action-SA, and they have suddenly gone quiet. In furtherance of Trollip and Action-SA’s defamation and social media campaign against me, obviously in support of dirty cops, (otherwise what is their motive), Trollip then elected to make false criminal allegations against, by fraudulently alleging that I had breached Section 7 of Act 4 of 2004, and invites the media along to further harass me: -.Of course, if Trollip’s ‘parliamentary functions’ includes making defamatory attacks on whistleblowers, like me, in support of dirty cops, then that would be the only area he could claim I am alleged to have interfered with his ‘functions’. I am entitled to fight back against such dishonestpoliticians, hiding behind Action-SA.TROLLIP’S POLITICAL CAREER - A FAILED POLITICIAN - COULD HAVE BEEN A MINISTERTrollip is a farmer turned politician. He may know a lot about farming but knows absolutely nothing about the criminal justice system. Both he and Action-SA dishonestly claim to be helping to promote corrupt free policing. The same ideal of Forensics for Justice, long before Action-SA existed. However, Action-SA have gone about it the wrong way, by attacking a Fifty-year criminal justice veteran in support of dirty cops. Action-SA rapidly dived in, following Mkhwanazi’s now infamous media briefing, with their unashamed public support of Mkhwanazi, who I will say is a criminal in need of a lengthy prison sentence, I will explain why I say this, later.Trollip was kicked out as Mayor of Port Elizabeth, (now Gqeberha) following a vote of no confidence by his coalition partners, because he could not get along with his deputy.In late 2019, Trollip ran for the position of Chairman of the Federal Council of the DA and lost to Helen Zille. By December 2019, he had resigned all his political roles with the DA. He spent several years unemployed. In February 2022, desperate for work, Trollip joined the new (Founded by Herman Mashaba) ‘The Peoples Dialogue’, later name changing to Action-SA. Had Trollip of stayed with the DA, he would probably have been a Minister today. Instead, he’s the parliamentary leader of a smaller party with 1.2% of the vote, compared to DA’s percentage being almost TWENTY times that of Action-SA at 21.81%.IS IT JUST TROLLIP THAT IS DISHONEST – OR IS IT ACTION-SA’S CULTURE?To answer this question, consider Action-SA’s multiple pre-election public claims that they would NEVER, EVER work with the ANC, and never form any alliance with them. In October 2021, Action-SA’s founder, Herman Mashaba publicly stated, with reference to the ANC “I will never work with the Devil”.In November 2021, Mashaba claimed he had been approached by a Top-6 member of the ANC, to consider a coalition with the ANC in certain metropolitan areas. He famously stated “I told them to wait for my call. I will not call the ANC, not in 300 years.”In December 2023, ahead of the 2024 General Elections, Mashaba publicly stated “The ANC is a curse, and cannot coexist with a prosperous South Africa.” In April 2024, Gareth van Onselen famously described Action-SA as “The Bullshit Monster”, because of constantly saying one thing, whilst doing another and said “The ASA monster now feeds exclusively on its own bullshit, and it produces as much of it as it consumes.”The most noted of Action-SA’s lies to the people of South Africa are the following FOUR: - Action-SA secretly worked with the ANC, to control power in Johannesburg, in return for a slice of the cake. A GNU run city would have been much better for the people of Johannesburg. The city is now bankrupt.Action-SA secretly worked with the ANC, to unseat the DA, in Pretoria (Tshwane), by sewing Government of National Unity “GNU” divisions. Look at the mess in Pretoria today.Action-SA worked with the ANC in April 2025, to pass a budget, which would see VAT increase to 15.5% in 2025, and 16% in 2026. The DA took the ANC budget plans to court, and the ANC backed down on the VAT increase. Action-SA dishonestly claimed that THEY, not the DA, had saved the country a 1% VAT increase.In April 2025, Action-SA publicly renege on their election promise not to work with the ANC. They say they await an invite to join the GNU, despite repeatedly saying NEVER.HOW ACTION-SA LIED FOR TROLLIPIn the Trollip attacks on me, Action-SA issued a Trollip designed media release, maliciously describing me as a “self-proclaimed forensic investigator”. They dishonestly forgot to mention my FIFTY YEAR span in law enforcement and criminal investigations, my TEN years spent lecturing on crime investigation and police administration at the police training centre, my qualifications as a Certified Fraud Examiner, and membership of the American and European Society of Criminologists, they also forgot to mention that I am the only person in the world to: -Take down two Commissioners of Police in South Africa, one of whom was then the world’s top-cop, as president of Interpol. Currently working on Commissioner No. 3!To have TWICE won the coveted ACFE Fraud Examiner of the Year, in 2014 and 2022.They ignore all of the above, to insult me by referring to me as a self-appointed investigator.What Action-SA also forgot to mention is the small matter of costs to the country. I have been carrying out my public interest work for South Africa for the last, more than TWENTY years, at no cost to the taxpayer. In fact, I have spent many millions of my OWN cash, in keeping the work going. These are millions that could have been spent on improving my and my family’s lifestyle. Instead, I had to put my whole family into exile, for their own protection and when they do fly into South Africa, I have to surround them with close protection, AT MY OWN EXPENSE. On the contrary, Trollip is where he is, at a cost to taxpayers of at least R2.5m per annum, possibly more, if you factor in the grants Action-SA receive each year, from the public purse. The public get ZERO visible return for this money, save for trying to guess Action-SA’s next dishonest U-Turn.FINALLY, Action-SA intentionally lied to the media, when questioned about personal donations I made to Action-SA upon its formation in 2020. They also lied about my warnings to them to create some distance between Action-SA and disgraced corruption accused ex-cop Deliwe de Lange, who they had appointed as their ‘spokesman’ on Safety & Security. I state, as has been proven above, that Action-SA are undeserving of a single vote, let alone 1.2% of all the votes. ENOUGH ABOUT DISHONEST ACTION-SA/TROLLIP, NOW ON TO THE DIRTY COPS!MKHWANAZI – IS HE A CROOKED COP? OR IS HE THE SAVIOUR OF GOTHAM CITY?Without doing any due-diligence, Action-SA, jumped on the bandwagon of what they now refer to as ‘the mood of the nation’ when they chose to attack me, with their unilateral, defamatory and dishonest postings on social media, intended to drum up a general social media smear campaign against me. To understand why I say their conduct is misinformed, or misguided support of dirty cops, one needs to consider the following statement by me: “The South African Police have remained captured by criminals at high level, starting with the 2010, Crime Intelligence driven, false Sunday Times articles, aimed at neutralising DPCI in Gauteng and KZN. This was the beginning of a phase of high-level taking over of the criminal justice system, more fully explained in a booklet titled “Joining the Dots” issued by Forensics for Justice in June 2017. This report named and shamed dirty cops and dirty prosecutors. Since publication, NOT one of those named have taken any action against Forensics for Justice, whilst many have been criminally charged, and/or dismissed from the police and/or NPA.The Zondo Commission, spent over R100m of tax-payer funds, looking into what they referred to as the ‘law enforcement thread’, then unceremoniously dropped the investigation altogether. This was most unfortunate, as the capture of the criminal justice took place before what we came to know as State Capture. This was necessary, because if the Criminal Justice System had not of been captured, then ‘Capture’ of government would not have been possible. Forensics for Justice have repeatedly publicly called for a judicial commission of enquiry, so as to reverse all the illegal appointments of criminals and/or promotion of undeserving crooked cops into senior management positions within the police, by the likes of Selebi, Phahlane and others.”HOW/WHY THE UNDERWORLD PENETRATED THE POLICETo a large degree, the NPA have taken steps to clean their house, although there are still one or two rotten apples left in the barrel. In this media release, we therefore ONLY focus on the criminal enterprise that has taken control of the police. Contrary to Mkhwanazi’s media brief, the criminal syndicate is NOT being run by (now suspended) Minister of Police, and (now suspended) Deputy National Commissioner, Lt General Shadrack Sibiya, although it does appear that the Minister would appear to have some serious questions to answer. The very real criminal enterprise within the police, centres around the individuals I shall shortly name, with the common denominator amongst them being the Crime Intelligence – Secret Services Account. It should be noted that the last Auditor General’s Report on the account, was NOT GOOD at all, with numerous qualifications, and notes around ongoing investigations. The following extracted relevant points were raised by the Auditor General, which indicate MASSIVE MALFEASANCE by ALL those involved in the management of Crime Intelligence funds: -.At this point, it is submitted that, in year-end 2012, the account’s income/budgeted expense was just under R100m. This has grown in 2024, to over R600m. Well above inflation; Why?Curiously, just before year end 2012, the account was under-spent, so that only R60m of the budgeted R98m was spent. It is widely believed that this is because erstwhile Crime Intelligence head, Richard Mdluli had been suspended, along with his finance officer, for various offences, including stealing from the fund. The cessation of theft by Mdluli, resulted in only R60m of the budget being ‘spent’, or stolen. The acting head of Crime Intelligence, Lt General Masemola (now Commissioner of Police), is alleged to have unlawfully blown R35 million on luxury motor cars, within the last few weeks of the year. Curiously, the then Acting Commissioner of Police, (KZN now Provincial Commissioner – Mkhwanazi) is alleged to have been involved in approving the unlawful expense of R35m. Since it is widely known that Mdluli treated Crime Intelligence as a ‘family business’ it is also widely believed that NOTHING HAS CHANGED; since Mdluli was sent to prison and is now on trial for his theft from the secret services account. The only change has been the scale of the ‘irregular expenditure’, which has made the secret services account, the go-to slush fund, for many at the management of the police.Another common denominator, which brings Masemola and Mkhwanazi together, is the now infamous Louis Vuitton bags, allegedly handed to them in a 2016 overseas trip, by a corruption accused Police supplier, Inbanatian Kistiah, who is currently on trial with Phahlane, in a separate case of corruption. Neither Masemola or Mkhwanazi have ever explain why they accepted gifts believed to be worth between R70,000 and R100,000 from a corrupt police supplier, nor have they provided evidence of how they declared same at custom, on their return from Germany, and paid the customs duty, or whether they recorded same in the police Gifts Register.WHO ARE THE MAIN MEMBERS OF THE CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE THAT RUN THE POLICE?HOW FORENSICS FOR JUSTICE LATCHED ONTO ITIn 2024, Forensics for Justice were investigating (on a tip off) the following information, from TWO different (anonymous) sources: -General Madondo had been unlawfully promoted into crime intelligence by General Khumalo, and sent on a working ‘holiday’ to Japan, at enormous cost to the taxpayer.General Khumalo was engaged in extra-marital affairs, which clouded his judgment, resulting in him turning to criminal activity including corruption.General Lushaba, the holder of the purse strings of the secret services account, had engaged in fraud, perjury, defeating the ends of justice and theft of Secret Service account funds, whilst trying to cover up his buying of sexual services, from a prostitute that then stole his police firearm and police laptop.General Khumalo had appointed, as a favour to another dirty cop, a 29-year-old BMW employee, straight in at the rank of Brigadier, with ZERO prior police experience, and no firearm licence, or security clearance.General Khumalo had abused the secret services account, by supplying secret service cash to General Mkhwanazi, for illicit criminal activities in KZN.General Khumalo had abused the secret services account through the unlawful purchase of a hotel in Pretoria and a commercial rented property in Durban.General Masemola had moved a female officer to his office and promoted her to Brigadier, so he could continue an affair with her.We spent some time and energy investigating the above findings and turned our findings over to the Office for the Inspector General of Intelligence “OIGI”. We supplied follow up information to OIGI, concerning the registration of the properties at the deeds office, as well as documentary evidence from TWO different sources, that showed zero compliance with the PFMA. We subsequently supplied the same information to IDAC, to further their investigations. We also released our findings pertaining to the unlawful appointment of Brigadier Mokwele, on 2025-01-05 to BIZNEWS and other media.On 2025-06-13, IDAC arrested General Lushaba and three of his accomplices. They were all charged with corruption, defeating the ends of justice and perjury and released on bail.On 2025-06-26, IDAC arrested Generals: Khumalo, Lushaba (again), Lekalakala, Gabela and Brigadier’s Ncube and the 29 year old Brigadier Mokwele. They were all charged with fraud and corruption, pertaining to Mokwele’s unlawful appointment.On 2025-06-27, I made a WhatsApp demand to Commissioner Masemola, to immediately suspend the FIVE generals and TWO Brigadiers. I also caused my attorneys to write the same demand on 2025-06-29. Masemola fobbed us off with lies, and simply reassigned the dirty cops, into rolls they cannot possibly fill, as they don’t have the qualifications, competence, or the respect of their new subordinates.On 2025-07-05, the very day before Mkhwanazi’s unlawful, media conference, I put the following public questions to Masemola, as head of the criminal enterprise within the police. I informed him that if he refused to answer the questions, a very negative inference will be drawn. He did not even have the guts to respond, I therefore request the media to try an extract answer out of Masemola, in the public interest, to the following questions he refuses to answer: -.R35M in LUXURY CARS PAID FROM THE CRIME INTELLIGENCE SLUSH FUNDS In 2012, it was widely reported that you, as acting head of crime intelligence, unlawfully splashed out R35m on luxury motor cars, simply because there was a surplus of unspent funds in the secret service account near year end. Please give a detailed explanation. See here: - https://iol.co.za/the-star/news/2012-06-07-saps-spending-row/ Extracted here: - “ The Star understands that the acting divisional commissioner of crime intelligence, Fannie Masemola, went on a spending spree, acquiring 140 luxury vehicles, among them BMW X3s, Audi Q5s, the latest Jeep SRTs and the latest BMW 320 models.”Please also explain who appointed you as acting head of Crime Intelligence at that time. Was it the same corruption accused Nascom, who later became your Minister of Police and became your police jet sidekick, passenger on your promotional trips around the country together after serious crime incidents?Who authorised the R35m spend (without following the PFMA) and what happened to the R35m in luxury cars. Please provide documentary evidence. THE LOUIS VUITTON BAG Who (name please) gave you the Louis Vuitton bag, for your wife? Where was it given to you? Was the donator a police supplier?Did you pay customs duty on the bag, or did you smuggle the bag into SA? If you did pay customs duty, please provide the receipt. Finally, did you disclose the bag as a gift, in the relevant register. If so, please supply a copy of the register.Where is the bag today? CRIME INTELLIGENCE - CRIMINAL ACTIVITY I refer to the charges against the seven accused, the remaining member of which (General Lushaba) was released on R10,000 bail yesterday. Why have you not suspended any of these accused and publicly announced same as a deterrent to like-minded criminals with badges?What is your close association with Lushaba, since we know it goes back far? Is it because he has the ability to transfer large swathes of cash in secret?Did you promise any of the SEVEN accused you would not suspend them?Since you are the accounting officer of the SAPS, please give a detailed explanation of what you know about the illicit property purchases by these awaiting trial accused, pertaining to a hotel in Pretoria and tenanted office buildings in Berea, Durban. Please see attached documents and explain whether you approved the purchase and if not, why not, and what you know about it? Since the ownership of the properties is now an OPEN SECRET, what (secret) purpose are the properties intended to serve as secret services account funded acquisitions?Where do the rentals on the properties currently go? ALLEGED UNLAWFUL APPOINTMENTS IN YOUR OFFICES It has been alleged by a whistle blower that Colonel Affinand was unlawfully promoted by you to her current rank, as she carried your illegitimate child. Please confirm or deny both allegations.It is alleged that you did NOT follow correct procedures to promote to Brigadier, then again promote to Major General, an official in your office, namely Brigadier / Major General Sebola nee Huma. Please explain.Please comment on the allegations that the unlawfully appointed Sebola nee Huma, herself then made unlawful appointments in favour of family members of hers. Please provide documentary evidence of the efficient employment of Sharon Gaehler, alleged to be a close friend and prior PA, of the corruption accused Minster Cele. Where does she work, what is her function and who does she report to?Please provide details of ALL overseas trip caried out by Huma/Sebola, explaining why and the cost.Please provide a schedule of ALL overseas assignments to South African Foreign Missions, explaining the appointments, ranks and (transnational organised crime) skills, and which appointments incudes friends and/or family.Please advise if Brigadier Mokhine was promised promotion to Brigadier, if he complied with your demands? THE CHINESE TRIP Please advise if you took TEN (or more or less) police officials on a private trip to China in October 2023?If so, did you stay at a 5 star hotel called Shangri la in Pudong? See https://www.shangri-la.com/shanghai/pudongshangrila/ What was the cost of the flights?What was the cost of the hotel?What was the purpose of the trip?Who approved the trip and the cost thereof. Please provide documentary evidence..On 2025-07-06, the same day as Mkhwanazi’s unlawful media briefing, I came out hard against him, when contacted by journalists for comment on Mkhwanazi’s allegations. This is what the dishonest Action-SA MP, Trollip refers to as my inability to read the mood of the nation. The mood of the nation according to Trollip, was that the nation stood 100% behind Mkhwanazi. I say Mkhwanazi used dishonesty to capture the public’s minds whilst pretending to be a whistle blower. Mkhwanazi’s media briefing resulted in him committing a number of offences, for which he should be criminally charged, including but not limited, to:-Fruitless and wasteful expenditure, by forcing more than 40 police officials to work paid overtime on a Sunday, just to make an impression on the media. Breaching Section 72 of the Police Service Act, by disclosing secret and confidential information concerning an investigation purportedly under way. (This offence carries a two-year prison sentence).On 2025-07-06, after the strategically planned unlawful media briefing of Mkhwanazi, a journalist sent me a copy of the power point presentation, given to the media by Mkhwanazi’s sidekick. Unfortunately, the dirty cops, forgot to remove the imbedded meta data from the pdf file, created from the Powerpoint Presentation. Or they probably did not know how to remove the meta data, being way out of their competence levels. This enabled me to trace the author. I subsequently established that General Masemola, had been making enquires, to ascertain if there was a warrant for his arrest, after reading about it in the media. I further established that Masemola attended at the police training college in Pretoria West on the evening of 2025-07-03, just after 19h00 and remained there along with a number of other cops, including the author of Mkhwanazi’s presentation, until after 06h00 on 2025-07-04. I have subsequently traced the user of the laptop in question and will be calling for that person to testify at the Judicial Commission of Enquiry, as to the creation of Masemola and Mkhanazi’s hoodwinking presentation.On 2025-07-06, the above findings led to me sending a further list of very damning questions to Masemola, a few hours after Mkhwanazi’s unlawful media briefing. Once again, no reply from the crooked Commissioner of Police: -.I find it most disturbing that, the day after I ask you some very difficult questions, which you refuse to answer, your sidekick, Lt General Mkhwanazi, calls an impromptu media conference.Not only does Mkhwanazi call a media conference, but he also published the attached document, containing quite a few lies, sprinkled with some partial truths.It is clear that Mkhwanazi stage managed the media conference, with the intention to instil confidence in his own unethical conduct. However, he has left more questions than answers and the biggest of them, is that you may have either contrived the media briefing with him, or that you consented to it. Please tell.The following is very clear and demands answers from you as the Commissioner of Police: - Mkhwanazi joined you on a foreign trip, with a police supplier. Mkhwanzi, like you, was in receipt of an extremely expensive Louis Vuitton bag, gifted to both of you by a police supplier. Mkhwanazi, like you, was implicated in the 2012 slush fund purchase of R35m in luxury cars. See article which touches on the subject: - https://iol.co.za/the-star/news/2012-06-07-saps-spending-row/ It appears that he protected you when he was Commissioner of Police, and now you are protecting him. You are looking after each other. You, like Mkhwanazi, appear to fear being arrested and criminally charged for your conduct over the years. Mkhwanazi’s media conference question; Is it the last kicks of a dying horse, to curry favour with the public, who are not aware of what’s really going on, or is it intended to stave off a publicly perceived arrest scenario? The fact is, that the Police, under your management, is rotten to the core. As a result, South Africans have to suffer the indignity of unacceptable levels of crime. Since sending you the e-mail on Saturday, I have been further advised by a source in your office, that you are allegedly engaged in an extra-marital relationship with Major General Huma / Sebola. The source alleges that Hume/Sebola used to work in Limpopo, but was brought to head office, so you could have her close to you. Source also alleges that you promoted her, to Major General and that she performs NO work, but mostly sits around her house, not coming into the office. Please confirm or deny these allegations. Either you, or Mkhwanazi should explain why he was dressed in combat uniform, surrounded by similarly dressed police officials. The implication is that Mkhwanazi is making an intentional show of force, to dress that like that and hold a media briefing, at a cost of well over R100,000, if not more. Alternatively, Mkhwanazi is planning something unlawful. Please URGENTLY explain. Mkhwanazi says that “In the year 2024, a request was received from Gauteng Organised Crime Investigation Unit to assist with the investigation to dismantle the organised crime syndicate operating in the country and controlled in the Gauteng Province.” Mkhwanazi deployed 10 members from his Political Killings Task Team to support Gauteng Organised Crime Investigation Unit. This begs the questions; When in 2024? Who made the requests? Does DPCI not manage organised crime investigations? If so, why did DPCI not deploy additional members? I have scrutinised the media briefing notes of Mkhwanazi, in which Mkhwanazi has carefully attempted to highlight a scandalous link between Vusimuzi Matlala and the Minister of Police. The following comes to light: - The media briefing was created on a Police Computer, with the user name “saps731043”, I would be interested to know who that user is, as it is doubtful Mkhwanazi was the author. Mkhwanazi is unlawfully and intentionally publicly exposing multiple investigations in progress. By such conduct it is clear that he is undermining the work of the police and the work of IDAC. Did you authorise Mkhwanazi to do that? If not, will you suspend him, along with the FIVE Generals and Two Brigadiers from Crime Intelligence? There does not appear to be direct communication between Matlala and the Minister of Police. It seems there is communication between Matlala and Mogotsi. It also seems there is communication between Mogotsi and the Minister. Mkhwanazi remains silent about his own involvement with you in respect of the R35m purchase of luxury cars from the Crime Intelligence slush funds. Mkhwanazi also remains silent about the overseas meeting you both had a with a police supplier, whereby you both received very expensive Louis Vuitton bags. Mkhwanazi goes into a lot of detail to explain how he came to be in possession of Vusimuzi Matlala’s mobile phones but remains silent on how the so-called Political Killings Task Team, got involved in that case, other than to claim that he took a decision to deploy them to Gauteng, after being requested by an anonymous member of the Organised Crime Unit (DPCI) in Gauteng. Something is clearly not right here. It needs to be opened to public scrutiny. The media conference of today, exposes the dark underbelly of the South African Police Service and make it clear that a Judicial Commission of Enquiry is needed to get to the bottom of the rot which you have failed to deal with. In fact, the rot has grown under your watch. I shall be repeating my calls, for your dismissal and will supplement those calls, with a request for a Judicial Commission of Enquiry. By copy to IDAC head and NDPP, as well as the DNC Lt General Sibiya, I request that the public receive proper explanations as to the correctness, or otherwise of Mkhwanazi’s media briefing. This matter is not going to go away anytime soon, so better if you start answering the questions. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.FINALLY, THE INFORMATION THAT CAME TO ME FROM SOURCES AFTER I HAD SPOKEN OUT AGAINST MKHWANAZI’S CRIMESForensics for Justice were approached by TWO separate sources, who allege they conduct police operations in KZN, under the command of Mkhwanazi. The allegations are, that there is an unwritten shoot-to-kill policy, and take no prisoners. If the allegations are true, this amounts to extra judicial killings which amounts to the crime of murder. Put another way, it is alleged the police in KZN, under Mkhwanazi, have become murderers. The sources say that they carry unlicensed firearms with them, and deposit these in the hands of the murder victims and falsely claim that the purported ‘criminals’ shot back at the police who were coming to arrest them but actually were coming to murder them. The cops in these operations are allegedly paid vast sums of cash, which cash is stolen from the Secret Services Account and supplied by General Khumalo, who despite being Divisional Commissioner of Crime Intelligence, is actually running operations together with Mkhwanazi. Mkhwanazi’s lifestyle is also stated to be way above his position.The above results in the support of Action-SA from what Trollip refers to as the mood of the nation; the nation are 100% behind Mkhwanazi.The ineluctable conclusion to be drawn from the above allegations. Is that Masemola, was the driving force behind Mkhwanazi’s unlawful media briefing, thereby placing Masemola at the head of the criminal enterprise running the police, instead of protecting the citizens of this country against crime. The full list of the top-tier of the criminal enterprise that has captured the police is therefore:-General Masemola – The driving force behind the criminal enterprise, whilst contemporaneously hiring his mistresses and allowing her to hire their family and friends into the police.General Mkhwanazi – Supportive roll and running a unlawful operations of his own in KZN General Khumalo – Driving the intelligence gathering for the criminal enterprise, whilst contemporaneously corruptly hiring staff, including his mistresses.General Lushaba – Managing the finances of the crime syndicate – using the secret services account, whilst stealing from the same account.THE MOOD OF THE NATION – SUPPORTING VIGILANTE COPS?Multiple dodgy political parties have campaigned, just like Action-SA and Trollip, for the fake whistleblower, Mkhwanazi, to be protected with public slogans like hands-off- Mkhwanazi. What these dodgy political parties have not realised, because they don’t want to realise, is that it cannot EVER be allowed in South Africa, for the police to act as para-military extra-judicial killing units, like they do in Mexico and Brazil, without any trial, without any testing of evidence, and, as has allegedly happened often, with the killing of sometimes innocent people, some of them shot in the back, or whilst unarmed and surrendering.It’s understandable for the victims of crime in South Africa, to do an air-punch when they hear stories like SIX Gangsters killed in shoot out with KZN task team. The killings are allegedly fraudulently dressed up, as gangsters that open fire first, police kill them all. However, it is alleged that once they have been murdered, the crime scenes are tampered with to create the impression the alleged criminals were all killed in self-defence. Curiously no criminal in such cases, escapes death, with many found shot in the back, or in the front whilst lying on the floor. There follows below a short list of just some incidents, which need to be fully investigated: -https://www.enca.com/news/6-suspects-killed-gunfight-kzn-police https://risingsunnewspapers.co.za/290136/six-suspects-killed-in-gun-battles-with-police/ https://sundayworld.co.za/politics/nhlanhla-mkhwanazi-in-alleged-torture-and-illegal-extradition-case/ https://www.news24.com/southafrica/news/six-extortion-and-murder-suspects-killed-in-midnight-shootout-with-police-in-durban-20240903 The modus operandi on the above and many more purported gangster killings, it is crying out for a proper investigation. There are many more examples. Since the media briefing of Mkhwanazi, someone has instructed the urgent removal from the police website, of all information notes on killings by the police. However, we had already downloaded these, now taken-down media releases, some of which we show below: -.The above (now missing articles) were forensically downloaded on 2025-07-08, after Forensics for Justice were approached by TWO separate whistleblowers, alleging extra judicial killing teams under General Mkhwanazi. The question now has to be: -Who directed the taking down of the potential evidence of alleged extra-judicial killings from the police owned websites? This and many more questions, will be put to the Judicial Commission of Enquiry, to un-capture the South African Police, so that the corrupt leadership can replaced with ethical officers. Forensics for Justice will keep at it, until the irrevocable integrity of the police is restored, despite the unlawful defamatory harassment from the dishonest Trollip and Action-SA..Interview Highlights.BizNews Reporter.Paul O’Sullivan, the forensic sleuth who helped bring down Jackie Selebi and expose underworld kingpin Radovan Krejcir, has returned to the public arena with a vengeance. In a scathing interview with BizNews founder Alec Hogg, O’Sullivan did not mince his words - calling KwaZulu-Natal’s top cop Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi “a criminal” and ActionSA's Athol Trollip “a pathological liar.”At the heart of O’Sullivan’s fury is what he sees as a dangerous national delusion: the widespread support for Mkhwanazi as a reformer and crime fighter. To O’Sullivan, that image is a facadem - backed by orchestrated media theatrics, social media fanfare, and a disturbing record of what he alleges are extrajudicial killings dressed up as police success.“South Africans are so desperate for a hero they’ll take anyone in a uniform,” he said. “But they’re being fooled. The emperor isn’t wearing clothes - he’s wearing stolen medals.”O’Sullivan claims the now-infamous presentation Mkhwanazi gave about criminal capture of the state wasn’t even authored by the general. The metadata, he says, shows it came from within the office of national commissioner Fanie Masemola - Mkhwanazi’s long-time ally and enabler.And that’s just the beginning.The slush fund and the Louis Vuitton bagsOne of O’Sullivan’s most explosive claims concerns the SAPS Crime Intelligence slush fund - a “Secret Services Account” that grew from R98 million in 2012 to a staggering R600 million in 2024.“Back in 2012, when Mkhwanazi and Masemola realised they hadn’t spent their full budget, they went on a shopping spree,” he said. “They blew R35 million on luxury cars for senior generals. Your taxes, turned into Land Rovers and BMWs.”O’Sullivan says the two also accepted lavish gifts - including Louis Vuitton bags - from a police supplier now facing corruption charges. “They returned from Germany with handbags worth over R70,000 each. I asked them: did you declare those bags at customs? Did you log them in the SAPS gift register? Nothing. They won’t answer.”He believes this kind of gift-taking is not incidental. “It’s symptomatic of a police management culture that sees public money as a piggy bank.”Trollip and ActionSA “joined at the hip” with MkhwanaziO’Sullivan’s beef with Athol Trollip began when the ActionSA parliamentary leader publicly questioned his legitimacy, calling him a self-appointed investigator. Trollip has also laid charges against O’Sullivan.But O’Sullivan says the attacks are personal, coordinated, and deeply dishonest. “I’ve never even met the man. But I went through his interview with you, Alec, line by line. He lied 17 times.”He alleges ActionSA has consistently supported Mkhwanazi, even toyi-toying outside his office with signs reading “Hands off Mkhwanazi.” He accuses Trollip and ActionSA of rank hypocrisy - pointing to their pre-election declarations that they’d never work with the ANC, followed by coalition deals with the ruling party in Johannesburg and Tshwane.“They said they’d rather wait 300 years before talking to the ANC. It took them three months.”Shoot-to-kill policy?But perhaps the most chilling allegation involves what O’Sullivan calls a shoot-to-kill policy in KwaZulu-Natal, allegedly led by Mkhwanazi. He claims sworn statements and internal whistleblowers have revealed a pattern of extrajudicial killings masked as crime-fighting.“Look at the stats. In KZN, when there’s an operation involving guns, 95% of the suspects end up dead. No survivors. Ever,” he said. “That’s not policing. That’s murder.”He describes a pattern of planting guns on bodies, covering up botched raids, and using the slush fund to bankroll police hit squads. He claims some members of these units stay at the Oyster Box Hotel - where rooms go for R10,000 a night - paid for out of the crime intelligence budget.“If this continues, we’re on the road to becoming Brazil or Mexico - where the police kill first and never answer questions later.”Mkhwanazi and Masemola: “joined at the hip”According to O’Sullivan, the relationship between Masemola and Mkhwanazi stretches back to the early 2010s. He says the two have been “joined at the hip” since they both benefited from the collapse of former police commissioner Bheki Cele’s reign. Masemola, he says, has made lateral appointments and promotions not based on merit, but on proximity to him - including alleged mistresses.“You’ve got a 29-year-old former BMW employee with no police training now wearing a Brigadier’s uniform. She saluted with the wrong hand. That’s who’s running visible policing in Pretoria.”O’Sullivan believes the Zondo Commission failed by abandoning its investigation into the capture of the police. He wants a new judicial inquiry - and says he’ll hand over sworn statements, documents, and years of research to prove his case.“This isn’t a vendetta. I have no financial interest. I’m not in politics. I do this because I love this country. If it’s good enough to live in, it’s good enough to fight for.”He ends with a warning: “If you think Mkhwanazi is Batman, think again. He’s not a hero - he’s part of the rot. And soon, the proof will be too loud to ignore.”

Paul O’Sullivan joins dots, drops bombshell: “Here’s your proof - Mkhwanazi a crook, Trollip a liar”

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