PUBLIC PROTECTOR’S NEW TARGET: McBride a moving target as Mkhwebane zones in on two fronts By Marianne Thamm MarianneThamm
It was former IPID investigator, Cedrick Nkabinde, who originally wrote to the Public Protector as well as Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, alleging impropriety and maladministration on the part of IPID head, Robert McBride.Nkabinde, before he was suspended from IPID in May 2018, was the principal investigator in a case against the amazingly elusive criminal fugitive and Crime Intelligence operative, Captain Morris “KGB” Tshabalala.
Tshabalala first blipped onto the radar in 1994 when he walked out of prison, after serving only two weeks of a 10-year sentence for armed robbery. He signed an agreement with his former employer, undertaking, as part of the settlement, that he would withdraw all complaints or statements to the Public Protector, the Minister of Police and Parliament.
McBride then noted a peculiarity that Vusi Dlamini, Deputy Director in the Gauteng office of the Public Protector, and who had questioned IPID members with regard to maladministration, appeared to be a close friend of Nkabinde’s.From our phone records obtained from the criminal investigation into Nkabinde’s conduct, it is clear that communication between Nkabinde and Dlamini occurs before the complaint it laid by Nkabinde and afterwards.
McBride then requested Mkhwebane to turn over recordings of the interviews with IPID staff to him, but this was turned down in a letter from the PP dated 21 January.Kindly note that I am not able to accede to your request at this stage as the investigations against IPID are not yet finalised and the release of such information before the investigators are finalised may jeopardise our investigations,” said Mkwebane.
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