Archive for
July, 2016
In what must rank as one of the most
successful operations in post-apartheid South Africa, a police colonel who
controlled the Gauteng firearms register was sent to jail for 18 years last
week. Colonel Chris Lodewyk Prinsloo pleaded guilty in the Bellville Regional
Court to over 20 charges of racketeering, corruption and money laundering. For
at least six years the top cop and a colleague sold an estimated R9-million
worth of lethal illegal weapons and ammunition to Cape Flats ganglords as well
as right wing extremists in Gauteng. Considering this victory one would think
SAPS Acting Commissioner Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane would lead this
small team of detectives in a victory parade through the country. Instead he
has sidelined their superiors. By MARIANNE THAMM.
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