Zonkizizwe

Advocate Baloyi states that Mr Nku and Warrant Officer Magane were sufficient to handle the drugs and that they planned to take the drugs to Zonkizizwe or Alberton, but Mr Nku did not want others to know about these drugs and did not tell his superiors because of distrust.

“He and Warrant Officer Magane were sufficient. They were going to take those drugs, and their plan, I think he said one of them said we will take them to Zonkizizwe, another one said would have taken them to Alberton ... he did not want anyone else to know about these drugs, and we had a lengthy debate with him about this bust. He did not tell his superiors, he did not tell anybody because he does not trust people.”

Chief Mashaba was expected to call the police during the operation, but he called somebody to tag along instead to legitimize their actions since Magane was not in charge.

“What you called was somebody to tag along with you. What you called was somebody from Zonkizizwe to tag along with you, to legitimize what you were doing, because Magane was not in charge of this operation. He was following your lead.”

Chief Mashaba did not know Magane was from Zonkizizwe but admitted Magane was leading the operation and called others including Phakula for assistance, indicating Magane was above him.

“I did not even know that Magane is from Zonkizizwe ... He was leading ... obviously he also informed me that he called Phakula, he called other people.”

Yellow Jersey Logistics transported a container to Scania in Aeroton; Mashaba and Magane introduced themselves as Crime Intelligence officers but are not Crime Intelligence members.

“The directors of the company Yellow Jersey Logistics, which is the company that was transporting this container to Scania in Aeroton, they say Mashaba and Magane introduced themselves as Crime Intelligence. Were you aware of that? No, I am not, Commissioner.... Mashaba is not from Crime Intelligence, he is a Traffic Officer from Sedibeng. And Magane is a CIMA analyst based in Zonkizizwe. He is not Crime Intelligence. Even if he was Crime Intelligence, he is not operational, he is desk-based. So he would have no business asking to open containers.”