Captain Freddy Sewele has appeared before the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into allegations of political interference with TRC cases where he affirmed his integrity while battling accusations of negligence.
Captain Freddy Sewele, a prominent investigator with the South African Police Service (SAPS), has defended his record against serious accusations leveled by Shadrack Ganda. Ganda, a close associate of the late Joe Nzingo Gqabi, accused Sewele of having neglected his duties in investigating the murder of Gqabi, who was killed by apartheid forces in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1981.
At the heart of the allegations made against Sewele is that he failed in his duties as an investigator in that 'there has been no meaningful progress in the investigations, and the explanations'.
According to official reports, on the evening of 31 July 1981, while driving out of his residence in Eves Crescent, in Salisbury’s (now Harare) Ashdown Park suburb, in Zimbabwe, the then ANC's Chief Representative to Zimbabwe, Joe Gqabi, was shot dead by three assailants. The assailants opened fire at close range into the head and body of the ANC stalwart, who died immediately.
On Thursday, during his testimony before the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry, probing allegations of political interference in the investigations into TRC cases, Sewele laid out the extensive measures he has taken in the investigation since 2020, when he took over the probe.
