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Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya answering ANC MP Xola Nqola.
- Suspended deputy national commissioner Shadrack Sibiya says he has nothing to do with the investigation into Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa’s murder.
- Despite this assertion, Sibiya was at the crime scene and the hospital where he saw the lifeless body of Meyiwa.
- The Orlando Pirates and national team goalkeeper was murdered in October 2014.
Suspended deputy national commissioner Shadrack Sibiya has told Parliament he had nothing to do with the criminal investigation into the murder of Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa amid allegations that he played a part in the staging of evidence.
During court proceedings in 2022, disgraced ex-advocate Malesela Teffo, who represented four of the men accused of murdering Meyiwa, claimed, without substantiation, that senior Gauteng police officials had staged the entire crime scene.
Teffo alleged that former Gauteng head of detectives Brigadier Philani Ndlovu, former Gauteng Hawks head Sibiya and former Gauteng head of safety Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane were part of that meeting, inferring they had played a role in staging the crime scene.
On Tuesday, Sibiya testified before the ad hoc committee established to investigate allegations of the criminal infiltration of the police.
He used the opportunity to explain his role in the 2014 murder of Meyiwa.
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“I’m actually happy that I’m being asked on this, so I can finally tell South Africans. I was at home; I got a call from the provincial commissioner. I was at home that night, I didn’t even know about the shooting. Around 23:00 that night, I heard about it, and I remember Senzo was killed after 19:30. Just like when a serious crime has been committed, we move,” Sibiya said.
Sibiya wanted to make it clear that he never got operationally involved in the investigation.
“So I just wanted to say to South Africans, I am not involved in the sense of this. I’ve never done anything wrong, and there have been many teams, more than 10 different teams that were sent to investigate this thing. I have done nothing that can actually cause the matter to be unsuccessful,” he said.
Muzi Sibiya, Bongani Ntanzi, Mthobisi Mncube, Mthokoziseni Maphisa and Fisokuhle Ntuli are currently on trial for the murder of Meyiwa. The soccer player was shot and killed while visiting his girlfriend, Kelly Khumalo, at her mother’s house in Vosloorus on 26 October 2014.
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The accused have pleaded not guilty.
Sibiya said he rushed to the hospital because Meyiwa “was a national asset”.
“When I got to the hospital, it was packed, even in the passage, even in the ward where he was lying motionless. Everybody was crying there; I could not make my way through into the ward. I saw him lying inside there, but from outside the ward. I told the provincial commissioner I will go to the house where now the investigation must start, because now the investigation process must start.
We then had to go to the scene of crime, and when we get to the house where it happened, there was up and down movement in the house. The very first thing is to take charge of the scene of crime. This is a scene of crime.
He said to secure the scene, “the team had to make sure that they remove everybody inside to outside”.
But the scene was cleared by the time he arrived.
“I arrived late at night when this thing happened almost after 19:30, and the scene was already processed by the officials. The experts had done their work. It’s clean. There’s no blood,” he said.
Hearings continue.
