Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Makes Another Allegation Against The Former SA Minister Who Was Found Dead In Paris

Natal’s fearless police boss, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, just dropped a bombshell that’s got Mzansi spitting fire. Testifying at the Madlanga Commission on October 7, 2025, he spilled the tea: a chunk of the SAPS Crime Intelligence secret fund – our hard-earned tax rands was used to build a fancy perimeter wall around the late Nathi Mthethwa’s KZN home when he was police minister. “That was money from Crime Intelligence… nobody was held accountable, but the reports are there,” Mkhwanazi said, cool as ice but sharp as a panga. With Mthethwa’s mysterious death in Paris still fresh, this revelation is hitting South Africans like a brick to the head.

Let’s rewind to 2009. Mthethwa, the big man in charge of SA’s safety, gets his private pad upgraded with a snazzy wall, courtesy of the hush-hush Crime Intelligence kitty. That’s right the fund meant for catching crooks and protecting witnesses was allegedly funneled to secure a minister’s crib. Mkhwanazi says it wasn’t just a wall; nearly R200,000 went into “security upgrades,” and whistleblowers like officer Dhanajaya Naidoo previously told the Zondo Commission that the same fund bought Mthethwa a slick Mercedes-Benz in Durban. The kicker? There’s a paper trail audits, orders, receipts, but not a single soul faced a courtroom. It’s the kind of VIP free pass that makes Mzansi’s blood boil.

This isn’t just about a wall. It’s tied to the dark days of Richard Mdluli, the ex-Crime Intelligence boss who treated the fund like his personal ATM. Mkhwanazi, who’s been fighting this rot since he was acting national commissioner, revealed Mthethwa leaned on him in 2011 to bury Mdluli’s corruption case – “the worst interference” he ever saw. Reports went to then-president Jacob Zuma, but nada happened. Now, with Mthethwa’s recent fall from a Paris hotel window officially a suicide, though his family’s screaming cover-up Mkhwanazi’s claims feel like a plot twist in a Mzansi soapie.

Social media’s on fire. “Our taxes built a minister’s wall while we dodge bullets in the townships? Yerrr, this country!” one Joburg tweep raged. In KZN, where taxi hits and political murders stack up faster than braai coals, folks are livid. Over 600 cases, including DJ Sumbody’s killing, sit unsolved, and now we hear cop cash was sprucing up a minister’s mansion? Memes are flying: Mthethwa’s wall dubbed “Fort Corruption,” shielding the elite while Mzansi mourns.

The Madlanga Commission, led by Judge Dennis Davis, is digging deep, with over 400 WhatsApp chats exposing links between kingpins like Vusi “Cat” Matlala and top officials. National Commissioner Fannie Masemola’s backing Mkhwanazi, but the arrest of intel boss Dumisani Khumalo smells like another insider dodge. Mkhwanazi’s calling for a total Crime Intelligence overhaul, fire everyone, start fresh or else the syndicate will keep running the show.

For every South African dodging crime in the streets or waiting for justice, this is personal. Mkhwanazi’s spilling secrets that could shake the system, but will it bring down the wall of corruption or just add another report to the pile? Mzansi, we’re tired of the elite building castles while we’re left in the dust. It’s time to demand answers and make sure this wall’s the last one standing between us and the truth.