{"id":25501,"date":"2026-01-15T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25501\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:32:13","slug":"phahlane-claims-saps-political-interference-began-at-ancs-2007-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25501\/","title":{"rendered":"Phahlane claims SAPS political interference began at ANC\u2019s 2007 conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Phahlane was giving evidence before Parliament\u2019s ad hoc committee on Wednesday, where he also told members of parliament (MPs) of a plot to have him removed.<\/p>\n<p>Phahlane focused his evidence before the committee on events surrounding his dismissal from the South African Police Service (SAPS).<\/p>\n<p>He also told the committee that police corruption and interference is not a new phenomenon and started as early as 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical interference in SAPS has been prevalent in the South African police, and it became more prevalent following the 2007 Polokwane conference, where many of these things happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Phahlane also told the committee about an elaborate plot by former Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) head Robert McBride to get rid of him using the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attacks directed at me by Robert McBride and Paul O\u2019Sullivan and their sustained campaign through the media, both print and electronic, bares testimony to their control of individual journalists whom they weaponised against me,\u201d Phahlane added.<\/p>\n<p>Phahlane told the committee that his dismissal by the then Minister Fikile Mbalula was unlawful and he\u2019s still fighting it in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phahlane was giving evidence before Parliament\u2019s ad hoc committee on Wednesday, where he also told members of parliament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-25501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}