The President of South Africa creates the committee to look at accusations of police corruption

Johannesburg -The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended his police after explosive accusations of ties with organized crime have been made against him.

Ramaphosa made the announcement in one Special address for the nation On Sunday evening he also stated that he was set up an independent investigation committee on the claims.

“The committee will investigate the role of current or former senior officials in certain institutions that may have helped or encouraged the alleged criminal activity,” said Ramaphosa.

“To effectively perform the committee, I decided to bring the Minister of Police Mr. Senzo Mchunu with immediate effect with immediate effect,” he added.

Mchunu, 67, has denied the allegations. He was an ally of Ramaphosa in the African National Congress (ANC) party, which it was thought was by corruption, and was considered a possible successor to the president.

But earlier this month, Kwazulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla MKHWANAZI broke with the protocol to keep their own press conference The weekend before he claims that Mchunu received payments from a suspect of corruption. He also accused his boss of having dissolved a police team that investigated political murders after external pressure.

In his speech, Ramaphosa noted that MKHWANAZI “had taken in the existence of an advanced criminal syndicate about the existence and operation of an advanced criminal syndicate that reported law enforcement and intelligence structures in South Africa.”

File -South Africa’s police -Minister Senzo Mchunu, center, visits an abandoned gold mine where miners are saved from surfaces, in Stilfontein, South Africa, January 14, 2025.

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Ramaphosa, who came to the office and promised to put an end to the endemic corruption that teases the South African government, said that the committee of inquiry would present its first findings within three months. The allegations are the last blow to the fragile government of National Unit (GNU), which was formed a little more than a year ago after the ANC lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since the arrival of democracy in 1994.

Other political parties quickly criticized the president, who is often seen as slow to make fixed decisions about division that could lead to a greater faction within an already divided ANC.

“These accusations offered the president the opportunity to show daring and strong leadership,” the second largest party in South Africa, the Democratic alliancesaid in a statement.

“Instead, he has again outsourced the responsibility of the executive to a committee, and South Africans have become cynical of Talk Shops, Take Teams and Committees that they see as buying time and avoiding accountability.”

The Daily Maverick Newspaper On Monday, the president also accused the president of a ‘research addiction committee’, and noted that his preference was to pass on the goat of expensive investigations on whose recommendations are not acting.