Calvin Mathibeli claims KZN's top cop is a bully who wants him dead
Calvin Mojalefa Mandlakapheli Mathibeli (right) could be facing legal action after making explosive claims against Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, alleging an assassination plot and police misconduct.
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Calvin Mojalefa Mandlakapheli Mathibeli, the owner of Calvin & Family Security Services, has doubled down on his accusations against KwaZulu-Natal's top cop, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, claiming that he is a bully who allegedly wants him assassinated.
On Tuesday, IOL reported that a raid carried out by the South African Police Service (SAPS) had taken place at Mathibeli's business premises on Friday.
This comes as shocking allegations are coming out of the Madlanga Commission.
In an interview with Newzroom Afrika that was conducted on January 20 and aired on Tuesday, the entrepreneur claimed that members of law enforcement went to his house with guns blazing.
"They found my sister. They said they had come to arrest me and that they had a warrant of arrest. She tried to call me, but I didn't take that call.
"That's because 10 minutes prior I had received a call from a reliable source that there were police coming to assassinate me under the pretext that I failed to cooperate," he told the broadcaster.
He claimed that this is well-known modus operandi of the KZN police.
Mathibeli alleged that the police are acting under instruction of rival security companies.
"He [Mkhwanazi] doesn't only work worth the private security sectors, he's working with taxi people who have been targeting me. These are people that have been bullying me.
"There are a lot of hits that have been put on me...Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is a bully. I have been saying that for years."
He went on to claim that he has had clients who have been victims of Mkhwanazi.
"Mkhwanazi is able to issue an instruction to kill people. In some of their operation they are able to secure mortuaries before they go and do an operation because they are planning to go and kill."
About the raid, KZN police said it was a head office operation, and police in the province had nothing to do with it.
"Mr Mathibeli seems to have an obsession with police in KZN and particularly, the Provincial Commissioner," said KZN police spokesperson, Colonel Robert Netshiunda.
"Now that Mr Mathibeli has introduced himself to the police in KZN, his utterances were simply an invitation to police to start looking into his business dealings. Police have learnt that he is a beneficiary of a tender with the Department of Health in Gauteng.
"KZN police will give him the attention he is seeking and get the ball of investigations rolling," he said.
He added that local police did not know about Mathibeli's business dealings. "We would like to thank him for the voluntary invitation to his business operations," he said.
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