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A 39-year-old suspect appeared in Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court in connection with the murder of Lt. Col. Charl Kinnear on September 25, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. The suspect from Springs (east of JHB), who owns a tracking and investigation company, made his first court appearance after being arrested Wednesday, September 23, at 10 p.m. at his home. (Photo by Gallo Images / Ziyaad Douglas)
The assassinated Lt. Col. Charl Kinnear ended a detailed 59-page complaint he filed in December 2018 and distributed widely among top SAPS leaders, making the real threat to his life and the involvement of SAPS colleagues perfectly explicit.
First published by Daily Maverick 168
“Every day I get home, my neighbors inform me of all the different vehicles that were parked in front of my house with different races of passengers in it.
“In the meantime, I discovered that the vehicles belong to members of the Criminal Intelligence Unit. My neighbors are also becoming paranoid because they think their lives could be at risk, ”Kinnear wrote.
Kinnear sent copies of the report to the National Chief of Criminal Intelligence, Lt. Gen. Peter Jacobs, to IPID, as well as to nine other high-ranking provincial and divisional commissioners.
In the report, Kinnear exposed how a rogue criminal intelligence unit in the Western Cape, consisting of at least six members, had been targeting their SAPS colleagues, interfering with investigations and acting criminally in collusion with underworld figures.
All the names were there. All the evidence. Everything that was needed for quick action.
The following month, on January 18, 2019, Jacobs forwarded recommendations, based on Kinnear’s detailed complaint, to National Commissioner General Khehla Sitole, Deputy Crime Detection Commissioner Lt. Gen. Lebeoana Jacob Tshumane, and Deputy National Commissioner Lt. Human Resources General Bonang Ngwenya.
Jacobs concluded that the team “should be disbanded and the legality of the operations should be investigated at the departmental and criminal levels.”
On November 14, 2019, a week before a botched hand grenade attack on Kinnear’s home, Colonel Andre Kay was killed in a hail of bullets in Bishop Lavis, not far from Kinnear’s home. It was speculated that Kay’s murder was a case of mistaken identity and that Kinnear had been the intended target.
The following month, December 2019, Kinnear’s protection was removed from the outside of his home.
On September 18, 2020, the Section Commander of the Anti-Gang Unit in the Western Cape and one of the best detectives in the country was killed in front of the same house.
The killer had timed the hit perfectly by tracking Kinnear’s cell phone.
On Thursday, September 23, 2020, an arrest was made in Gauteng of a SAPS member suspected of tracking Kinnear’s phone.
In 2018, Kinnear in his report said: “It has also become common knowledge that Crime Intelligence members often mention that they have to listen to the phone lines of SAPS members who speak nothing but crime. These limbs, sir, surely can be better used. “
Kinnear detailed how certain officers had attempted to interfere in an investigation into the failed assassination attempt on Cape Jerome underworld figure “Donkie” Booysen at the Spur on the Kuils River on August 1, 2018.
Officers were also charged with illegally tapping Kinnear’s phone, stealing cash from the Mitchells Plain SAPS 13 store, and attempting to thwart the ends of justice by soliciting an inmate to make a false statement against his fellow police officers. .
“As a divisional commissioner, appointed on April 1, 2018, I have never been informed or informed, verbally or in writing, of the existence or operational activities of the team or unit,” said Jacobs.
The rogue team, Jacobs told SAPS top brass, handled and logged cases and dossiers and reported not to Divisional Commissioner of Detectives, Lt. Gen. Tebello Mosikili, but to Western Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lt. Gen. Khombinkosi Jula.
Jula previously served as Deputy Police Commissioner in KwaZulu-Natal, before being transferred by disgraced former Acting National Commissioner Khomotso Phahlane to the Western Cape in 2016, replacing Arno Lamoer.
The intelligence unit, Jacobs said, “operated irregularly and without authorization.”
Jacobs, in his recommendation, noted that the Kinnear report indicated and described a list of cases that identified Vearey, Kinnear and Jacobs himself as “suspects.”
“It is the considered opinion of this office that the existence of the team in its operations and hierarchical line, outside the prescribed structure, has served to undermine the integrity of the office of the Division of Criminal Intelligence and possibly the person of the Divisional Commissioner, Lieutenant General Jacobs “.
The Kinnear assassination is a turning point for SAPS not only in the Western Cape but also in South Africa.
Underworld figures operating from Durban, Gauteng and the Western Cape have been dragged into the net, as have corrupt cops.
This is a national story that has, at its peak, powerful actors in almost every area of society.
No one, neither the Minister nor the National Commissioner, can plead ignorance. Kinnear has left enough to arrest, charge and try in court a long list of implicated thugs and corrupt police officers.
What is holding them back?
Start with lifestyle audits of each of the region’s top management members and then follow the points that Kinnear had started to put together. DM / MC
