Exhibit · Equipment
The blue lights
Emergency blue lights allegedly fitted to private vehicles - a marker of alleged cartel reach into metro policing.
Illustration, not evidenceWhat it is
Emergency blue lights of the kind at the centre of the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) 'blue lights' scandal aired before the commission. Reports alleged the lights were installed on vehicles linked to alleged cartel figure Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala. Suspended EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi has denied that any privately owned vehicle was fitted with blue lights or deployed under EMPD authority, calling it an oversight rather than corruption.
Why it matters
The blue lights stand for the allegation that an organised network reached into metro policing - the symbols of police authority allegedly placed on private cars. The matter is contested testimony and denied; nothing here is a finding of wrongdoing against any person named.
Sources
Where this comes from
- TimesLIVE - 'I was called a blue-lights blesser': Mkhwanazi claims succession battle
- TimesLIVE - EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi arrested
- eNCA - Madlanga Commission: Julius Mkhwanazi arrested
Illustration, not a photograph of real evidence. Generated to depict an object described in the commission record.