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Madlanga Commission | Nku’s public testimony postponed to next week

Alleged police informant and businessman, Tumelo Nku's, testimony before the Madlanga Commission has been postponed to Monday, 29 June, after a day of private consultations between Nku, his legal team and the commission's evidence leaders. Nku is alleged to be the informant who alerted authorities to the July 2021 drug trafficking operation in Aeroton, south of Johannesburg, where at least 715 kilograms of cocaine were discovered hidden inside a shipping container […]

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Madlanga Commission | Nku declines to identify source behind July 2021 drug bust

Alleged police informant and businessman, Tumelo Nku, has declined to reveal the identity of the source who allegedly informed him about the drug consignment discovered in Aeroton, south of Johannesburg in July 2021. Nku testified before the Madlanga Commission on Thursday, where he was questioned about his alleged role in the operation, during which approximately 715 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of R300 million, was discovered concealed […]

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Madlanga Commission | Mashaba grilled over failure to report July 2021 drug bust

Gauteng Traffic chief, Samuel Mashaba, has come under scrutiny at the Madlanga Commission for failing to notify the nearest police station about the July 2021 drug-bust in Aeroton, south of Johannesburg. Mashaba continued his testimony before the commission on Friday, where commissioners scrutinised both his conduct during the operation and his relationship with alleged police informant and businessman, Tumelo Nku. The commission that according to Mashaba's supplementary statement, he received […]

todayJune 12, 2026 39

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Madlanga Commission | Gauteng Traffic Chief Admits to Side Hustles With Alleged Police Informant Nku

Chief Provincial Inspector of Gauteng Traffic Police, Samuel Mashaba, has told the Madlanga Commission that he had side hustles with alleged police informant and businessman, Tumelo Nku, in 2019. Nku is the same individual who allegedly alerted Mashaba to the July 2021 drug-trafficking operation that culminated in the controversial bust at Scania's Aeroton warehouse, where 715 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of R300 million was discovered. Mashaba, […]

todayJune 11, 2026 516

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Madlanga Commission | IPID director says Aeroton drug-bust file went missing

Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) Assistant Director of Investigations, Takalani Zelda Maphosho, says she discovered that Pretoria Directorate for Priority Crimes and Investigations (DPCI/Hawks) Lieutenant-Colonel, Lesley Maluleke, had opened an enquiry file linked to a suspected drug-carrying shipping container in July 2021. Maphoso resumed her testimony before the Madlanga Commission on Tuesday, where she revealed that she was later informed the file had gone missing after her enquiry into it. […]

todayJune 9, 2026 156

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Madlanga Commission | KZN Hawks officer says colleague refused to store seized cocaine at police station

Kwa Zulu-Natal Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigations (SOCI) Unit, Lieutenant-Colonel Kwazikwakhe Sibiya, has told the Madlanga Commission that Warrant Officer, Dan Perumel, refused to store 541 kilograms of cocaine seized at Durban Harbour's CHC Depot in June 2021, allegedly citing a lack of space at Isipingo Police Station. The cocaine, with an estimated street value of R200 million, was seized during a high-profile operation that remains under scrutiny following the […]

todayJune 5, 2026 136

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Madlanga Commission | Sebola details alleged police-linked drug dealing operation

Directorate of Priority Crime Investigations (Hawks) Lieutenant-Colonel, Joseph Sebola, says investigators, uncovered cellphone messages suggesting that alleged police informant and businessman, Tumelo Nku, was communicating with an unidentified individual about a cocaine consignment seized in July 2021. Sebola testified before the Madlanga Commission on Thursday. The 750kg cocaine consignment was seized at Scania’s Aeroton warehouse on 9 July 2021, an incident that later led to the arrest of Nku and […]

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Madlanga Commission | SAPS officer says Feroz Khan halted Aeroton drug operation

South African Police Service (SAPS) commander of the Crime Information Management and Analysis Centre (CIMAC) at the SAPS Zonkizizwe police station, Marumo Magane, has detailed his arrest during a search-and-seizure operation at the Aeroton Scania warehouse in July 2021. Magane told the Madlanga Commission on Tuesday that SAPS Crime Intelligence Officer, Major-General Feroz Khan, ordered him K9 unit Warrant Officer Steve Phakula and Gauteng Traffic chief Samuel Mashaba, who was […]

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Madlanga Commission | Hawks head flags ‘suspicious’ handling of 2021 cocaine seizure

Head of Serious Organised Crime in the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (Hawks), Major-General Hendrik Flynn, says the handling of cocaine seized in KwaZulu-Natal in 2021 raised serious concerns. Testifying at the Madlanga Commission on Tuesday, Flynn described the process as "suspicious" noting that the drugs were never taken to a police station for safekeeping. The testimony relates to the theft of more than 500 kilograms of cocaine from the […]

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