General Dlamini

Mr Raphesu had a small conversation with Mr Perumal about the mention of a person named Dlamini and informed him that he knew Dlamini, but they left it at that.

“So just to indicate further, the same name of Dlamini also came up. And I also informed him that I know Dlamini. So we had a small conversation about it, but we left it at that.”

The Chief Evidence Leader invited two other members of the Commission's team, including Mr Dlamini, to meet with Mr Mogotsi, showing that if he wanted to act improperly, he would not have included others.

“The Chief Evidence Leader when he called two other parties or members ... who form part of the team for the Commission to come with him when he goes to meet with Mr Mogotsi”

Messages from General Dlamini to Sergeant Nkosi concern checking compliance on two vehicles linked to Sergeant Nkosi's brother's company.

“these are messages from General Dlamini to Sergeant Nkosi. They must probably have their own discussion after that. But in mere receiving this, I pick up the key point of interest, which I know we had a discussion on later on, and it is on checking compliance from Ngaphesheya and Elshadai.”

The context of the delayed message apologizing for the delay was a communication between General Dlamini and Sergeant Nkosi.

“In terms of the apologies for the delayed message, that must have been a communication, of course, between the General as well as Sergeant Nkosi, which I cannot comment on.”

Mr Mnisi states he was asked to assist in checking compliance but made it clear there was nothing he could do about it, indicating the request was difficult for him to comment on.

“Chair , I am going to focus on my understanding on this , and these messages when received , the purpose of that was for me to assist in checking compliance . I made it extremely clear that there is nothing I can do with that . The thought process for Mr Dlamini would be a very difficult process for me to comment on .”

Mr Mnisi became aware of attempts to influence the tender through mandates given at the BEC level, involvement of General Dlamini, and knowledge of meetings discussing such interference.

“ADV BALOYI SC”

The matter did not come to Mr M N I S I again in a formal nature and he did not take it up with General Dlamini.

“It did not come to me again in a formal nature , so I did not take it up with him .”

The feedback given at 178 by General Dlamini was not followed according to the process described, yet there was acceptance of his directive to redirect the service provider to the CFO, inconsistent with the stated process.

“this feedback that he gives you at 178, it is clear from it that it is not followed the process that you have described to us, and yet you do not say to him in response, you do not say to him, follow the process. In fact, you accept when he says, I have directed them to you, which is where they started.”

General Dlamini instructed the service provider to go back to Mfowethu, which is problematic because the onus is supposed to be on the service provider to submit necessary documents.

“Dlamini says, I have told the service provider to go back Mfowethu. That is a problem I have. That right now you say that the onus is on the service provider, and I accept that. They must submit the necessary documents.”

There is internal confusion because General Dlamini says the service provider must meet with certain parties, but the process requires submission to APPS, then SCM, before coming to the speaker.

“he must go and meet with them, right, in those WhatsApp exchanges where Sergeant Nkosi forwards to you where General Dlamini says I need to know whether to meet with Gubis. You say, let him go meet them. He gives feedback. He says, I have met with them, and in my meeting with them, I have redirected them to the CFO. I have said, they must meet with the CFO because that is where they started. Your respond, and you say, this is the way. Much appreciated. So, on your own handling of this matter, you do not say to General Dlamini, tell the service provider to do our internal process, which is submit to APPS, then it must go to SCM, and then it will come to me. You do not do that.”

General Dlamini or Deputy Chief Dlamini are critical players in the Gubis payment issue, but General Dlamini did not attend a meeting on the issue because he was unavailable.

“the critical player there would be General Dlamini or Deputy Chief Dlamini... But he did not come to the meeting... He was not available.”

General Dlamini informed Sergeant Nkosi he was not going to come to the meeting but did not inform Mr Mnisi directly.

“He did not tell me. He told Sergeant Nkosi.”

General Dlamini directed that seven security companies be given priority for vehicle land allocation, with Elshadai and Ngaphesheya as the first two on the list, communicated through Sergeant Nkosi on 25 March.

“Sergeant Nkosi says, a message which is, again, from its language forwarded from General Dlamini that says: "Captain, find below our vehicles for land to be given Mfowethui in order of priority." And then there is a list of seven and the first two are Elshadai and Ngaphesheya.”

Mr Mnisi understood General Dlamini's message as a request to assist in checking compliance regarding the allocation, but was irritated as such requests were persistent and seemed more than just compliance checking.

“That I would be able to assist in checking compliance. This is also the fourth time that this is coming on board. ... I was at a tad, you know, irritated and annoyed because this thing was persisting right from page 148. This was the fourth instance that I was facing with receiving requests of checking compliance. ... I already had an idea that it might not have been stated verbatim, but it was more than just checking compliance.”

Mr Mnisi clarifies that an alleged night out with Sergeant Nkosi and General Dlamini was actually a 45-minute lunch meeting.

“It was not a night out. It was probably just lunch for 45 minutes, not a night out.”

General Dlamini sent messages on 13 April about documentation requirements including lease agreements, audit certifications, and insurance needed for compliance with tender TMPD-1.

“General Dlamini sends two messages to Sergeant Nkosi. The first one says: 'Lease agreement for both company and director for rates and taxes. Interpretation of PIE Act. Three years’ financials must be done by independent auditor and signed or certification that they have been audited... Public liability insurance for 10 million.' These look like documents that would be mandatory requirements for compliance with that tender TMPD-1.”

Mr Mnisi states the documents referenced by General Dlamini on 13 April were submitted and closed by 2 October and kept securely.

“That has been submitted and closed on the 2nd of October, SC. These documents are under lock and key.”

MR MNISI was looking at a completed tender document of Ngaphesheya which was Grade B and he was advising Nkosi to tell Dlamini to provide information for correction.

“You are sitting with a document which is completed in a way that you have determined or you have been told does not meet the requirements... You are looking at a completed tender document of Ngaphesheya and you picked up errors or shortcomings about it, which is that it is a grade, it is indicated Grade B... You are advising Nkosi to tell Dlamini to correct this...”

Six months after tender closure, General Dlamini and Sergeant Nkosi were attempting to arrange to cure five mandatory disqualification features of the Ngaphesheya bid which should have been locked down.

“Some six months after the tender has closed and documents are supposed to be under lock and key, General Dlamini and Sergeant Nkosi are trying to make arrangements to cure five different mandatory disqualification features of the Ngaphesheya bid.”

Sergeant Nkosi was persistently sending Mr Mnisi documents from companies like Elshadai, and appeared to be asking for interference in the process to favor Elshadai.

“Sergant Nkosi has repeatedly been sending your way... we believe he was asking you to interfere in the process in favour of Elshadai”

Mr Mnisi states that he was advising Sergeant Nkosi and General Dlamini with free tender advice for a bid not related to City of Tshwane, but to another government institution.

“I am purely providing advice on something that they are interested in... that was not in relation to TMPD-1 whatsoever”

Mr Mnisi states that General Dlamini and Sergeant Nkosi were very close and that for any further advice on the tender matter involving them, he directed parties to US because US also knew a lot about issues of this nature.

“At this point, I knew that General Dlamini and Sergeant Nkosi were very close. I did not want to take this matter any further. I said, if you want any further advice, please speak to US. He also knows a lot about issues of this nature.”

Adv Baloyi SC accuses Mr Mnisi of knowing that General Dlamini was intimately involved in the tender matter and that Mr Mnisi was redirecting advice through General Dlamini, indicating knowledge of Dlamini's involvement.

“Your message says Dlamini must tell him to make a correcti... So you knew that Dlamini is intimately involved... You said Dlamini must tell him to make the correction. So you know that General Dlamini is involved with whatever is going on.”

Mr Mnisi knew that Ngaphesheya did not have Grade A guards but still requested General Dlamini to advise on how to get an upgrade to Grade A during an open tender process.

“M f o w e t h u , p l e a s e s e n d t o U S a n d r e q u e s t h i m t o p r o v i d e h i m w i t h i n f o r m a t i o n f o r t h e c o r r e c t i o n . ... Meaning they would need to apply for that ... The tender process was still open ... They need to get advice on how the application process works to get an upgrade ... The advice that they were going to get from General Dlamini was how you can get an upgrade to Grade A ... From my perspective, they had Grade B ... They were never going to be complying for that ... I had to refer them to someone who had more knowledge of PSiRA and the security industry which was the General at this instance”

Mr Mnisi and General Dlamini use informal terms such as 'we' and 'yours' interchangeably when referring to each other, indicating a close friendship.

“So we is this unfortunate way of how we refer to each other ... Even when it is something that involves him, we say yours ... We use such terms interchangeably because I think at this point we had become good friends ... At this point, we were friends ... We were friends ... He was really a brother to me ... He was not family though. He was just a good friend of mine”

On March 2025, Sergeant Nkosi sent Mr Mnisi the names of two bidders, Elshadai and Ngaphesheya, all messages coming through General Dlamini to check for compliance.

“On March 2025, Sergeant Nkosi sent you the names of two of those bidders, Elshadai and Ngaphesheya ... Those two vehicle messages for land on Ngaphesheya Security Services, Elshadai Security Services, that one came from General Dlamini through Sergeant Nkosi ... with the request to check for compliance”

General Dlamini was supposed to attend a meeting on 25 March but did not arrive, resulting in Mr Mnisi spending 45 minutes with Sergeant Nkosi instead.

“you were supposed to have a meeting with Sergeant Nkosi and General Dlamini later that day, the 25th of March, but General Dlamini did not arrive at the meeting. So instead, you just spent 45 minutes with Sergeant Nkosi.”

Sergeant Nkosi forwarded a message from General Dlamini containing a list of seven companies that Victor Kgopa, Chair of the BAC, said were under his mandate, which allegedly came from someone called Nico Mathobela, who had no legitimate role in the procurement process related to TMPD-1.

“Sergeant Nkosi forwarded you another message from General Dlamini with a list of seven companies, saying that these were the seven companies that Victor Kgopa, the Chair of the BAC, said were his mandate. And the mandate was alleged to have come from someone called Nico. ... Nico Mathobela was certainly not any person who had any legitimate role to play in the procurement process relating to TMPD-1.”

General Dlamini forwarded another message via Sergeant Nkosi listing seven companies described as vehicles for land to be given in order of priority.

“General Dlamini through Sergeant Nkosi, which lists seven companies, which are described as, the message reads: “Captain, find below our vehicles for land to be given ... to order of priority.””

Adv Chaskalson SC suggests a modus operandi where communication and transactions between Mr Matlala and General Sibiya are intermediated by Sergeant Nkosi to avoid direct contact.

“Now, and we saw in relation to Tshwane this modus operandi of people not wanting to be seen talking to each other or doing transactions with each other, with intermediating their communications through you. We saw that repeatedly with the CFO and General Dlamini.”

Sergeant Nkosi was sending a series of job application receipt documents to General Dlamini for vacancies advertised at Tshwane, encouraging youth to apply and following up on their applications.

“The reason that I was sending this to General Dlamini, these documents are the application for the vacancy that was advertised at Tshwane. As a person who is directly involved in the community activities, I am encouraging youth to apply for employment. I then make a follow-up to that effect.”

Sergeant Nkosi sent a receipt of a job application to General Dlamini three weeks after the City of Tshwane had already acknowledged receipt, to follow up as requested by MMC Morodi.

“She wanted me to check if indeed it was received, and maybe if I could do something in terms of checking, or what could be the problem, that maybe some of the people who applied to those vacancies were not being called. ... She wanted to make a follow-up upon whether the application had been received or not.”

Sergeant Nkosi was asked by MMC Morodi to make enquiries or follow up job applications with General Dlamini related to Tshwane Metro Police.

“Like myself, I am a police officer. When people apply for vacancy in the SAPS, they would maybe send questions or whatever reference. Because of your insight, can you check what is the progress of this application? ... I forwarded it to General Dlamini, like I was doing with other applications that are seen here in this document.”

MMC Morodi sent information through Sergeant Nkosi because she thought he would be of good help even though she had direct access to the whole of Tshwane including TMPD.

“if the purpose of you sharing this information with General Dlamini was simply to get information about the status of things , then explain why MMC Morodi would want that information through you . She has access to the whole of Tshwane , including the TMPD”

Sergeant Nkosi explained that he sent job applications, including cleaner and general worker applications, not only for Metro Police but also under the umbrella of Tshwane to General Dlamini for follow-up because he worked closely at the head office.

“I am just taking advantage of the entity that he is working in, the umbrella of Tshwane. ... I think I took advantage of that he works in that particular entity of Tshwane.”

Sergeant Nkosi stated that there was little to no report back from General Dlamini regarding the fate of the job applications sent for processing.

“Nothing much. Nothing much he said. He said, no, you will make a follow-up. So, I did not make any follow-up with him.”

General Dlamini is a deputy chief of TMPD and is involved in policing activities.

“He is a deputy chief .”

Sergeant Nkosi confirms General Dlamini is involved in policing but not in recruitment matters such as recruitment of cashiers, training officers, or cleaners.

“I only know that he is doing policing , he is into policing .”

MMC Morodi sends lists of recruitment candidates to Sergeant Nkosi expecting him to use his access to people involved in recruitment, like General Dlamini, to assist these candidates and influence the outcome of appointments.

“when MMC Morodi sends you this list, to you, she knows that you have access to people who are involved with recruitment, whether it is General Dlamini or whoever, and she expect - the are two scenarios. She expects that you will use that relationship to assist these candidates that she is given you to get a favourable response to positions.”

Sergeant Nkosi denies that he was seeking information only when forwarding the recruitment applications information from MMC Morodi to General Dlamini, asserting that the explanation offered by ADV Baloyi is false.

“The answer that you have given to Mr Chaskalson, that you received this information from MMC Morodi to find out what is happening with these applications, that you forwarded all of these batches of information, the different batches, to General Dlamini because you wanted information on progress in the applications, that is a false answer. That is false.”

General Dlamini, head of finance at TMPD, needed to verify and sign off documents before the CFO could approve payment to the service provider.

“I think he will need to verify all the documents submitted before him. And then that is when now he is going to instruct or he is going to follow necessary or do necessary arrangement for the payment to be done.”

Sergeant Nkosi volunteered to act as intermediary in the communication between General Dlamini and the CFO, which otherwise involved bidirectional mediation through messages and screenshots over hours.

“Your way was simpler. You were speaking to the General conveying the General's words to the CFO, speaking to the CFO, taking a screenshot of your exchange with the CFO, sending it to the General, getting the General's response, relaying it to the CFO. This goes backwards and forwards for about 4 or 5 hours.”

Sergeant Nkosi knew General Dlamini since youth but denied being friends, describing him as a father figure.

“I have known him since youth stage... General Dlamini can never be my friend... He played a father figure role in my life.”

Sergeant Nkosi was involved as a middle person in facilitating payment requests between the CFO and General Dlamini due to his relationship with General Dlamini.

“you would have been that involved , or been the middle person , because of your relationship with General Dlamini”

Sergeant Nkosi admits to intervening on at least one invoice by forwarding it from the CFO to General Dlamini for follow-up.

“I was to intervene on this one invoice”

Sergeant Nkosi states his intervention was simply forwarding the invoice from the CFO to General Dlamini to look at it, not direct intervention.

“it was a matter of the CFO sending it to me , then I send it to the General so that he must look at it . Not that I was intervening in the way it sounds”

Sergeant Nkosi says he was trying to help the CFO through General Dlamini and did not have deeper involvement than that.

“it was just me trying to help the CFO through General Dlamini , that is all”

Sergeant Nkosi's intervention involved giving General Dlamini and following up on an invoice matter to ensure payment issues were addressed.

“My intervention in this matter was to give General Dlamini and to make follow-ups with that effect”

The CFO and General Dlamini communicated via intermediary using screenshots sent through a witness' phone to avoid leaving electronic communication trails regarding payment of invoices involving Gubis material.

“the CFO and General Dlamini have been communicating in relation to this matter through you and through screenshots that have been passed through your phone”

There is a sinister reason for using indirect communication to facilitate irregular payments by changing budgets and increasing target values to extort money from the City.

“there is in fact a more sinister reason for this, which is that if this whole process of increasing target values, extending budgets and the like to facilitate payment of invoices is being done irregularly to extract money out of the City, the General and the CFO would not want to communicate in this regard in the manner in which officials normally communicate”

Sergeant Nkosi requested General Dlamini to assist his brother to secure a job related to a tender.

“Your requested General Dlamini to do something and assist your brother towards securing the job, job in respect of the tender. Not so?”

Sergeant Nkosi was intermediary for communications between General Dlamini and the CFO regarding preferred companies for demolition tenders.

“What it seems to me is taking place here is once again, you are placing yourself as the conduit for communications between the General and the CFO and you have asked the General in the wake of last week's conversation about these seven extra companies that the Red Berets want.”

General Dlamini sent messages on 9 March about two vehicles for land: Ngaphesheya Securities and Elshadai Security Services.

“The two vehicles for land are on Ngaphesheya Securities and two Elshadai Security Services .”

General Dlamini sent a list of seven companies on 11 March, identified by the Red Berets, asking to check authenticity with Mfowethu.

“The above is from the Red Berets . Please check with Mfowethu if it is the same with his from CIC Juju to verify the authenticity .”

General Dlamini received a list of seven companies from an individual or group called CIC Juju and sent the same list to the CFO for verification.

“He sent me the same companies to send to CFO to verify, as in he knows about these companies, and are these companies legit or is it true the way they are saying that they were sent by Juju ?”

General Dlamini had this company name but was unsure if they were just name dropping from Juju CIC; he wanted to ascertain this fact from Mr Mnisi.

“Mr Dlamini did have this name, but he was not sure if they are just name dropping to say that they came from Juju CIC . He wanted definitely to ascertain with Mr Mnisi that fact .”

Sergeant Nkosi requested General Dlamini to ensure his brother got the job.

“You said that you requested General Dlamini to do something to ensure that your brother got the job .”

The companies listed are the preferred vehicle providers for the tender and the list was compiled by Nico, an outsider referred by General Dlamini in Tshwane.

“a list of bidders who Victor has a mandate to award this tender to ... This list, it was the list that was compiled by Nico ... Nico who was referred by General Dlamini who is an outsider to Tshwane ... I sent to General Dlamini ...”

Sergeant Nkosi states the CFO of Tshwane and General Dlamini were discussing a tender in Mpumalanga because the CFO was trying to help where he could.

“According to me, it is not the matter of maybe in a bad way, but he is trying to help where he could.”

General Dlamini sent Sergeant Nkosi a chat message on 12 July 2025 commenting that Nkosi had 'captured' Mr Mnisi and that Mr Mnisi would not want Nkosi to leave him.

“General Dlamini says to you : 'Morning Captain, I can see, Ukuthi, you have captured uMfowethu and he would not want you to leave him.'”

Sergeant Nkosi understood General Dlamini's message as instructing him to stay close to Mr Mnisi forever.

“In terms of our relationship, myself and Mr Mnisi, that is how I understood him.”

Sergeant Nkosi confirmed that General Dlamini knew about his relationship with Mr Msibi.

“That is correct.”

Sergeant Nkosi said he acknowledged receiving General Dlamini's message and understood it to mean he was close to Mr Mnisi, but he did not understand the reference to 'Babawakhoongasekho'.

“I am just acknowledging the message that he sent ... I received it ... I understood the content ... I would not understand when he said, 'uBabawakhoongasekho' ... I just responded that I have ...”

General Dlamini is the Deputy Head of the Tshwane Municipal Police and is referred to in chat as 'General Dlamini Undercover'.

“he is the Deputy of the Tshwane Municipal Police, Deputy Head of the Tshwane Municipal Police Department ... listed in your chats as General Dlamini undercover”

Mr Mnisi also refers to General Dlamini as 'General' in the chats.

“Mr Mnisi also refers to him as General”

Sergeant Nkosi clarifies General is a rank, but states Dlamini is a Deputy Chief and ranks differ from their own.

“I refer him as General, but he is a Deputy Chief ... the ranks they are different than with us”

General Dlamini confirmed that the unpaid invoice was valid and the company had never been paid.

“General Dlamini checked the invoice, and he also found that indeed that company worked, and it was never paid. Then he came back to me, he said, indeed, this complaint is valid because of this company, never worked.”

Payment was eventually made to Gubis after the issue was resolved with the help of General Dlamini and Mr. Mnisi.

“I think that payment was made to them. They were paid.”

Sergeant Nkosi was helping the CFO by giving the invoice document to General Dlamini since he was driving the CFO's car at the time.

“I was helping the CFO. By giving the document to General Dlamini. It was not an issue for the CFO to give it to General Dlamini, but at that time when the information was received, it happened that I was driving on one vehicle with the CFO.”

Sergeant Nkosi made phone calls to General Dlamini while driving to try to sort out the payment issues with the unpaid invoice.

“While you were driving, you made some calls to General Dlamini to try and sort all of this out? That is correct. I phoned him.”

Elshadai Security Services and Ngaphesheya were two bidders for the tender; Ngaphesheya is Sergeant Nkosi's brother's company.

“The sixth name on that list is Elshadai Security Services. ... Is it not true that Elshadai and Ngaphesheya were the two bidders you, Mr Mnisi, and the Deputy Head of the TMPD, Mr Dlamini ... decided were going to win this tender? ... Ngaphesheya, his brother's company, Sergeant Nkosi's brother's company.”

Sergeant Nkosi denied that he, Mr Mnisi, and General Dlamini arranged for Ngaphesheya and Elshadai to be the winning bidders.

“No, that is not true.”

Sergeant Nkosi had communications with Mr Mnisi and General Dlamini regarding Ngaphesheya but not Elshadai.

“Did you have any communications with Mr Mnisi and undercover General Dlamini in relation to Ngaphesheya and Elshadai? ... Not Elshadai, but Ngaphesheya, ja.”

Sergeant Nkosi approached General Dlamini, a father figure, to intervene and help his brother with a bid advertised in Tshwane.

“I approached General Dlamini ... to intervene, there is a bid that was advertised at Tshwane, can you help my brother?”

Sergeant Nkosi claims that General Dlamini was not directly or indirectly involved in the tender process and instead directed communication to a document expert via the witness's brother.

“He would then refer me or my brother, not exactly me but my brother, to someone who is a document expert when it comes to tenders.”

Sergeant Nkosi denies that General Dlamini was involved in arranging the tender prior to its closing.

“No, he had nothing to do with it.”

General Dlamini forwarded a message to Sergeant Nkosi about two vehicles for land and companies relating to a tender, which was then forwarded by Nkosi to Mr Mnisi for verification.

“...on the 9th of March, two days before you forwarded it to Mr Mnisi, he sends you that message.”

General Dlamini sent Sergeant Nkosi a list of seven companies associated with the Red Berets to check with Mfowethu (Mr Mnisi) to verify authenticity.

“After noon Captain... The above is from the Red Berets. Please check with Mfowethu...to verify the authenticity.”

Sergeant Nkosi explains General Dlamini sent him messages to forward to the CFO to verify companies supposedly representing the EFF, and asked Mr Mnisi to check with Mr Malema about the companies' authenticity.

“The General was sending me this message to send it to the CFO so that he must verify...”

Advocate Chaskalson asserts the list of companies was put forward by the EFF to General Dlamini who requested verification from Mr Mnisi with contact to Mr Malema to confirm representation.

“The EFF have put forward a list of seven companies to get this tender to General Dlamini and he wants Mr Mnisi to check that the people who claim to represent the EFF... should check that by contacting Mr Malema.”

Sergeant Nkosi admits forwarding messages from General Dlamini, including lists of companies and requests to verify with Mr Mfowethu (Mr Mnisi).

“What you then did is you forwarded those two messages to the CFO.”

Sergeant Nkosi explains the message sent to the CFO on 18 March was to verify if the companies were compliant and related to the tender, sent by the General.

“My General sent it to me to send it to the CFO to verify if indeed those companies were compliant.”

According to the CFO and possibly General Dlamini, the brother's company had at least six manifestly non-compliant features, which were pointed out after the March 18 message was sent.

“Your brother's company was nowhere near compliant. It had at least six different manifestly non-compliant features, all of which were pointed out to you by the CFO, I think, or possibly by General Dlamini.”

Sergeant Nkosi denies that the brother's company was non-compliant as claimed by the CFO and General Dlamini.

“That is not true.”

Advocate Chaskalson summarises that General Dlamini gave two companies initially, then seven more companies supposedly from the Red Berets, that the CFO was to verify. The CFO then reported back about a meeting with Action SA and EFF where submitting five companies was considered an insult.

“General Dlamini gives you two companies who are the chosen vehicles for this tender... The CFO then says to you... I had a meeting with Action SA and EFF yesterday telling me to submit five is an insult and did not sit well with me.”

Sergeant Nkosi was requesting assistance for a family member of Lieutenant-General Dlamini, indicating a favor or gesture.

“communication between Sergeant Nkosi and General Dlamini, where he is requesting some assistance for one of your family members”

Lieutenant-General Dlamini acknowledges a close relationship with Sergeant Nkosi and admits that Nkosi does personal favors for him and his family.

“from the chats that you have a very close relationship with the Sergeant and that from the chats it is evident that he does personal favours for you, and in this case for your family”

Lieutenant-General Dlamini states that the favor sought by Sergeant Nkosi was for his daughter, but denies that a formal application was made and that his daughter was under employment and did not require the favor.

“the favour sought is for my daughter. And he speaks to my daughter and they exchange whatever... what is written here is not even the truth because my daughter is working and he was working even that time... And some of what is written here is indeed incorrect because it never happened that to my daughter. And she was under employment... she wanted other employments somewhere.”

Sergeant Nkosi shares work-related information such as CCTV footage, videos of a car involved in an incident, and pictures of suspects with Lieutenant-General Dlamini via chat.

“Sergeant Nkosi sends you, what is contained in those MP4 files is CCTV footage... about five videos and that is followed by still shots of the car that was involved in that incident, and more videos as well as pictures of the suspect... this is the kind of information that you also exchanged.”

Lieutenant-General Dlamini confirms that Sergeant Nkosi provides live updates with photos and location details during operations, even if he is under arrest or in custody.

“Sergeant Nkosi is one person, he can ask you where are you. He will check the picture of the building in front of you and send it to you to show where he is before he can explain anything... He is under arrest or whatever, whatever he is doing... He will go there, when he do not find anybody, he will even take the photo of the house and send it to you... He will be sharing with you all the way...”

Lieutenant-General Dlamini describes sharing information about a vehicle theft case and suspects being arrested in Polokwane with Sergeant Nkosi and a group chat to enable faster reaction.

“Here it was a vehicle stolen, the Prado of Mr Mandla Mandelain a shopping centre... Fortunately, the vehicle was recovered in Limpopo and suspects are arrested there... We have also a group chat where we share this kind of informations... so that they can react faster... when we receive this kind of assistance to say there is this and what have happened.”

Lieutenant-General Dlamini received updates from Sergeant Nkosi about activity on the Messina case and shared pictures of vehicles and weapons.

“he is sharing information related to a Messina case... Sometimes I will share in our chat which we are having as members, or members of his team and myself... sometimes he will send directly to myself... when I ask where was he when he was busy working on this matter, he will send me what he is doing... he sends you more pictures of vehicles and weapons.”