Brigadier Campbell Nyuswa, provincial commander of the Serious Organised Crime Investigation Unit in KwaZulu-Natal, this week apologised for the November 2021 theft of 541kg of suspected cocaine with a street value of R200 million at the Hawks’ Port Shepstone storage facility.
The Madlanga Judicial Commission of Inquiry continued hearing evidence of the still unresolved theft of 541kg of suspected cocaine with a street value of about R200 million from a Hawks storage facility in Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal.
The commission, chaired by retired Constitutional Court Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, publicly heard the testimony of three witnesses – Brigadier Campbell Nyuswa, the provincial commander of the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation Unit in KwaZulu-Natal, his boss, suspended Hawks provincial head Major-General Lesetja, and an anonymous police officer, only identified as “Witness J”, who gave evidence on the seizure of 715kg of cocaine in Aeroton, Johannesburg in July 2021.
“Witness J”, a Hawks analyst, gave evidence in-camera due to its sensitivity, which the commission decided was likely to expose his life and his family’s lives to danger.
The commission made the ruling after the witness indicated that his testimony included that businessman Tumelo Nku played an active role in tipping off suspended Gauteng Traffic Police’s chief inspector Samuel Mashaba about the transportation of high-value cocaine with a street value of R300 million from the Durban Harbour to Aeroton.
