Madlanga Commission hears how Hawks' bigwig moved drugs from crime scene
Drive with John Perlman · 3 June 2026 · 7m
Speaker 1: Twenty three past three. Let's focus our attention now on the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, Speaker 1: an ongoing saga that's been covered over a number of sessions involving many witnesses. At Speaker 1: issue, five hundred and forty one kilograms of cocaine intercepted by police way back in Speaker 1: June twenty twenty one, found in a shipping container at a depot in Isipingo in Speaker 1: Durban. The cocaine was then moved. The cocaine was then stolen, all of it and Speaker 1: nobody has ever been found responsible. The Commission is doing some digging. What are they Speaker 1: finding? Tubby Saw Gorba has been listening closely, Tubby Saw, very good afternoon to who's Speaker 1: the witness today and what's coming out of their testimony? Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Good afternoon, John. The witness today is mister Gavin Jacobs. He heads out Speaker 2: the Serious Investigations crime units at the Hawks in Durban and it's a very important Speaker 2: witness, especially in this matter because he was one of the first sort of senior Speaker 2: people who came out to the drug bust and was obviously the commander of the Speaker 2: scene. Considering that during the initial stages of the drug bust, he was the most Speaker 2: senior police officer at the scene, and by that extension, he was basically the crime Speaker 2: scene commander. So the first part, John, is we've discussed this number of times. The Speaker 2: first part of his testimony, he has been giving his statement. And now way we Speaker 2: are John, is that the probing and the cross examination has started and we're actually Speaker 2: starting to see some cracks developed from mister Gavin jacob statements. And one of…
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