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The witness and others unpacked and sealed the exhibits at Port Shepstone forensic science lab bags and entered them into the Port Shepstone SAP 13 register.
“We proceeded to Port Shepstone and unpacked and sealed the exhibits in the FSL bags...They were then entered in the Port Shepstone SAP 13 register...which was brought to DPCI offices by the Port Shepstone clerk.”
Exhibits were stored at the DPCI offices in a walk-in safe, similar to an armoury that normally stores firearms, except firearms were removed because the exhibits were only drugs in this case.
“the exhibits were stored at the DPCI offices ... it is like sort of an armoury, that walk-in safe ... but when we put those things, those firearms were removed, those drugs were alone there”
Maj-Gen Senona took custody of keys for exhibits because 541kg of suspected cocaine was stored at DPCI offices, not a police station, which he considered a different situation than usual exhibit custody.
“It is because the 541kg of suspected cocaine was stored there. And if I did not take possession of the keys”
Maj-Gen Senona affirms his decision to take the keys was because the exhibits were stored at the DPCI offices, not at a police station, making it a different process.
“I think we stored the drugs at the DPCI offices. If they were stored at the police station, I would not have taken the keys.”
The SAP13 Clerk at the station was out of context during signing out of exhibits and was never present during sample taking at the DPCI offices, indicating irregularity in exhibit handling.
“The SAP13 Clerk at the station is out of context...that Clerk never had sight of the exhibits and of the sampling when they say they went to take samples.”
Brigadier Nyuswa reported the attempted break-in to General Senona because he needed to know about the security breaches in the DPCI offices.
“He is a Provincial Head and he needs to know of the security breaches in the DPCI offices.”
Brigadier N Y Swa has never seen the door to the DPCI offices and is currently under precautionary suspicion.
“I have been there I have never seen the door. But maybe I can ask. It is just that now I am put on precautionary suspicion.”
The DPCI offices were not allowed to keep exhibits and did not have a SAP 13 register due to unsuitability and security concerns, a fact known to Brigadier Nyuswa and General Senona.
“None of the DPCI offices were at the time actually allowed to keep exhibits. This is the reason the DPCI office did not have an SCP13 register. The DPCI office was particularly vulnerable and was not suitable to store exhibits, let alone the quantity we were asked to store. Both Brigadier Nyuswa and General Senona knew this.”