Suspended Deputy Commissioner Liuetenant General Shadrack General Sibiya suspects that he is being pushed out mainly by the uMkhonto Wesizwe Party (MK Party) as he has a history with the former President Jacob Zuma who had dismissed him in the past.
Sibiya testified at the Madlanga Commission that there l was a march planned in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) by the MK Party in support of General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
Then the National Commissioner, Fannie Masemola, called him and instructed him to go to KZN to receive the memorandum from the MK Party, despite being aware of his strained relationship with Mkhwanazi.
Sibiya said he was mocked at the Adhoc committee mainly by MK representative and he continued to be made a joke even after his attendence.
“The MK Party is the one goes and open a criminal case agaunst me and Minister Senzo Mchunu for deafiting the ends of justice innrelation to the 121 dockets. Then I had to go and account to the nation and face the MK Party which opened the case against me,” he said.
Sibiya told Madlanga Commission that the statement used to justify a raid on his home was later cited by the MK Party when they opened a case against him and that they subsequently organized a march against him at the SAPS head office.
“The reason I raised this matter was because there Honourable David Skosana who opened a case against me. All I was being humiliating questions, I was humiliated publicly, I was being underminded. They were speaking down on me throughout. MK Party opened the case against me, the same MK statement us being used by Brigadier Kunene to raid my house,” he said.
He said Mkhwanazi has a large social media following and suspect that he has a hand in it while they (Generals) are not allowed to have such.
The Madlanga Commission further heard Sibiya accusing Mkhwanazi of using social media to push a narrative he was a saint.
“What worries me is that, you see when you look all the provincial commissioners no one you will see on social media, no one is being spoken about on social media. They don’t have followers because we are no allowed to be on social media as policeman.
“But you have this one police commissioner who is always on social media everyday. Now you have political parties fighting to have him. He is supported by the MK. I spoke to one MMC he was asking what was going on and he wanted to underdstand what was going on. Now we have this person who have many accounts and many followers,” he said.
Retired Constitutional Court Judge Mbuyiseni Madlanga interjected and asked Sibiya if Mkhwanazi has a social media account or not.
“Does General Mkhwanazi have an account on social media or do you know if he has an account? If it is latter, you can’t expect him to control what people want to post,” said Madlanga.
Sibiya responded by saying: “Commissioner I must say directly or indirectly there is no way he is not involved. If this is the case that he has no control of what people say about him, It cannot be that it must be about Mkhwanazi only. What I want to say is that all the photos, videos it is always on social media. When you say something here, there is a lot of attacks I get,” he said.