Deputy President Paul Mashatile only 'realised at home' that two cars of his motorcade weren't with him and didn't 'know what happened', Police Minister Bheki Cele told the Portfolio Committee on Police.
The police and IPID delivered scant information to the Portfolio Committee on Police on the incident where eight of Deputy President Paul Mashatile's VIP protectors allegedly assaulted motorists, arguing the matter is now sub judice.
“What happened” was that eight heavily armed VIP police officers attached to his security detail on 2 July dragged two men from the VW Polo they were travelling in on the N1 in Gauteng and kicked them while they were lying on the ground. Cele said the deputy president’s convoy usually has seven cars – six from the police and one from the South African National Defence Force, which is, according to Cele, a “medical kind of a car”.
The court Cele was referring to is the Randburg Magistrate's Court, where Shadrack Molekatlane Kojoana, Johannes Matome Mampuru, Pomso Joseph Mofokeng, Harmans Madumetja Ramokhonami, Phineas Molefo Boshielo, Churchill Mpakamaseni Mkhize, Lesibana Aggrie Rambau and Moses Fhatuwani Tshidada – all members of the Presidential Protection Unit – are facing 12 charges, including pointing a firearm, reckless and negligent driving, malicious damage to property, assault with the intent to cause...
“It’s not because we are dodging; it is because we also know it is questions that can be asked in a court of law,” said Ntlatseng. During the meeting, DA MP Andrew Whitfield said it is “becoming abundantly clear to South Africans [that] police abuse is pervasive”.
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