GAUTENG. – AfriForum's private prosecution unit has demanded answers from police about the status of a forensic report on alleged fraud, corruption and misconduct in the police service's forensic services division.
Barry Bateman, spokesperson for AfriForum's private prosecution unit, says the CPN Forensic and Accounting Services report has been submitted since 2013 to successive national police commissioners and the parliamentary portfolio committee on policing, but the recommendations have reportedly still not been implemented. The unit represents three whistleblowers who claim they were victimised after the investigation. They also testified before the ad hoc committee investigating the allegations of Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
AfriForum says an internal report of seven November 2025 by Maj Gen Mark Hankel indicates that attempts to locate the original CPN report within the police were unsuccessful. According to the organisation, recommendations from that report have reportedly also not been implemented.
Adv Gerrie Nel, head of AfriForum's private prosecution unit, said the situation raises serious questions about accountability within police management. The unit has requested police management to inform the whistleblowers about the status of the CPN report and about the process for implementing the recommendations of both the CPN and Hankel investigations.
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This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
