Nicolette Kinnear, wife of murdered Anti-Gang Unit Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear. (Photo: Supplied)
She also inquired whether Kinnear’s report might have been the motive for a planned alleged hand-grenade attack on their family home, which was thwarted in November 2019.
Security placed outside the couple and their children’s home in Bishop Lavis had also been suddenly removed in December 2019, a month after the hand-grenade incident.
Visiting the home of the Kinnears after the assassination of the top cop outside their front gate on 18 September, Police Minister Bheki Cele ordered an investigation, especially considering that the detective had implicated fellow SAPS members.
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Daily Maverick reported earlier that Mokgabudi, formerly Matakata, was replacing controversial WC Crime Intelligence head Mzwandile Tiyo. Tiyo remains in the position for now.
Khan was delegated to the position by Major-General Sindile Mafzi after the suspension of current head, Peter Jacobs who will soon return to work.
In a circular dated 15 February 2021 to the DPCI, all divisional commissioners, all provincial commissioners and their deputies as well as the chief of staff Ministry of Police, National Commissioner Khehla Sitole announced that Lieutenant General Yolisa Mokgabudi (formerly Matakata) has been appointed at the Acting Divisional Commissioner Crime Intelligence in the troubled region.
An ex-Springbok rugby player. The notorious 27s gang. The assassination of an international steroid dealer.
The three may seem totally unrelated, but court cases taking shape and set to play out in Cape Town are exposing suspected links between them and just how far the reach of organised crime as the State alleges stretches.
In the latest developing case, Jerome “Donkie” Booysen was arrested on Thursday, 18 February, along with five other men.
One of the five is Clinton Langeveldt, a former City of Cape Town law enforcement officer who reportedly resigned after he was arrested in November 2017. At the time of his arrest in the suburb of Bellville South, he was allegedly found in possession of R2-million worth of Mandrax.
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An internal police probe into the murder of Anti-Gang Unit detective Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear, and the failure of police to act on a chilling piece of information that his life was in danger, has drawn in Western Cape Crime Intelligence boss, Major-General Mzwandile Tiyo.
Kinnear was shot dead near his home, and despite a string of assassination attempts stretching over months – and a warning sent to police top brass two weeks before he was killed that his life was in danger – he died without protection. There’s more to this story Subscribe to News24 and get access to our
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