{"id":14961,"date":"2025-11-11T05:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/retired-sa-police-chief-alleges-acting-deputy-chief-was-present-at-copper-confiscation-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:21","slug":"retired-sa-police-chief-alleges-acting-deputy-chief-was-present-at-copper-confiscation-operation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/retired-sa-police-chief-alleges-acting-deputy-chief-was-present-at-copper-confiscation-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired SA Police Chief alleges acting Deputy Chief was present at copper confiscation operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Spies testified at the Madlanga Commission on Monday. He says the confiscation of the copper cables was illegal. Spies says officers linked to Mkhwanazi had embarked on illegal activities, which are subject to Independent Police Investigative Directorate investigations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cAnd now Kirscher is speaking to the person in the back of the car, which, when he climbs out, we can immediately recognise him, but it\u2019s Brigadier Mkhwanazi. Now ,the driver in the orange top that you just referenced is also a member of the metro police. The vehicle is also allocated to the specialised services, but we can identify them,\u201d Spies said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14962,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-14961","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South African (SA) city of Ekurhuleni\u2019s\u00a0retired Deputy Police Revo Spies says the city's Acting Deputy Chief, Julius Mkhwanazi was at the scene of a Meyerton business when copper was confiscated and stolen by officers","published_date":"2025-11-11 00:00:00","news_description":"South African (SA) city of Ekurhuleni\u2019s\u00a0retired Deputy Police Revo Spies says the city's Acting Deputy Chief, Julius Mkhwanazi was at the scene of a Meyerton business when copper was confiscated and stolen by officers","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19399,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14961\/revisions\/19399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}