Extra woes for Mchunu as police seize cellphone at his KZN household residence for the second time

Senzo Mchunu, the undefire police minister who has been positioned on particular depart is once more below scrutiny.

On Monday, police executing a search and seizure warrant granted by the Johannesburg High Court raided Mchunu’s personal residence in KwaZulu-Natal the place a cellular phone was seized.

The raid was confirmed by Sithembiso Mshengu, Mchunu’s spokesperson who defined that the devices have been handed over to the police within the presence of Mchunu’s lawyer.

“As a law abiding citizen and in the presence of his attorney. He handed over the cellphone in line with the directive of the court. Minister Mchunu will address these developments and many other matters that evolve around his name in the coming weeks,” Mshengu said.

Monday’s raid is the second to have been performed at Mchunu’s residence the place devices have been confiscated. According to Mshengu, the opposite confiscated gadget had not been returned to Mchunu.

The former KZN premier finds himself entangled within the allegations that he aided and abetted the dreaded underground legal cartels actions. In July 2025, head of state Cyril Ramaphosa positioned Mchunu on particular depart shortly within the aftermath of explosive revelations made by General Nhanhlanhla Mkhwanazi, the KZN police commissioner, on July 6 notorious media briefing. MKhwanazi accused Mchunu of political interference in delicate police operations and alleged that he was aidin the actions of the so-called massive 5 cartel. He additionally asserted that Mchunu had disbanded the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) to guard the rogue components, a declare Mchunu denies. The bombshell gave beginning to the Madlanga Commission, a public inquiry. It is investigating amongst different issues how police actors and legal networks have allegedly infiltrated state intellegence, the judiciary, police and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)

Mchunu’s title, who in the intervening time faces no prices of wrongdoing, has additionally been talked about by a number of witnesses on the fee for alleged clandestine conduct.

Adding one other layer to the entanglement, one Bishop Lawrence Maumela who described himself as a detailed pal of Shadrack Sibiya, the suspended deputy nationwide police commissioner charged that each Mchunu and Sibiya have been victims of ANC political succession battles.

“ I’m told that there are many being targeted. It seems this is an act where people are being targeted because of succession battles. If the president cannot intervene, we are going to retaliate,” Maumela charged.

He additionally claimed that Sibiya who appeared in court docket on Tuesday going through a number of sexual associated circumstances that his arrest was a part of a marketing campaign to dam him from being a nationwide commissioner.

“ In the morning, the police were at General Sibiya’s house with a search and seizure warrant. At the same time there were police at Senzo Mchunu’s house with a search and seizure,” he mentioned.