Brother’s keeper: Lesetja Senona, KZN head of the Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation (the Hawks), at
the Madlanga inquiry. Photo: Screenshot
The Madlanga commission is set to focus on the Port Shepstone drug bust and the subsequent disappearance of seized narcotics, with KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major General Lesetja Senona scheduled to testify on 5 June.
The case stems from a June 2021 drug bust in Durban in which 541kg of cocaine, with a street value of about R200 million, was seized. The cocaine later disappeared from a walk-in safe at the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime offices in Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal.
Evidence presented before the commission has suggested that the theft had been an inside job rather than the result of a security lapse.
