'Might have been an inside job'
Prinsloo told the commission the theft could have been an inside job, and passed a six-hour polygraph examination.
Witness
Lieutenant Colonel Jakobus Prinsloo (retired)
Lieutenant Colonel (retired), KZN Hawks · KwaZulu-Natal
Testified · cleared by polygraph
A retired Hawks officer who told the commission the theft might have been an inside job. He detailed the Port Shepstone facility's security failures and underwent a six-hour polygraph test, which he passed.
This profile summarises testimony and evidence given on the public record before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. It restates allegations as presented at the hearings and is not a finding of guilt, liability, or wrongdoing by any person.
Their role
What the record says
Security warning
He described no working electric fence during load shedding, no cameras or beams, no armed-response alarm, and an unmanned reception.
The keys
His account of how the safe keys were handled directs attention up the chain of command.
On the stand
Appears on 1 hearing day
Connections
How this witness links to the record
Named over the keys
Brigadier Campbell Nyuswa
Provincial Commander, Serious Organised Crime - KZN Hawks
Prinsloo's evidence on the safe keys points toward senior management.
View profile →Fellow cleared witnessWarrant Officer Karl Sander
Hawks narcotics investigator
Both Prinsloo and Sander passed polygraphs and raised the inside-job and victimisation threads.
View profile →Related caseThe R200 million Durban port cocaine bust
The case file that ties these witnesses together.
Open case file →“There was a reception and no one was at reception when there were 200 million rands worth of drugs in the building.”Lt Col Jakobus Prinsloo to the commission, on the state of the Port Shepstone storeroom.