{"id":8907,"date":"2025-07-13T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T06:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=8907"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T06:33:48","slug":"police-minister-senzo-mchunu-requests-special-leave-amid-mounting-allegations","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/articles\/police-minister-senzo-mchunu-requests-special-leave-amid-mounting-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Minister Senzo Mchunu Requests Special Leave Amid Mounting Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johannesburg \u2013 13 July 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s Minister of Police, <strong>Senzo Mchunu<\/strong>, has formally requested to be placed on special leave by President Cyril Ramaphosa, amid growing political and public pressure over a series of damning allegations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The request comes in the wake of serious claims made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, who accused Mchunu of interfering in investigations into political assassinations and working in coordination with criminal networks. Mchunu has denied all wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"185\" data-end=\"216\">According to sources close to the Presidency, the embattled minister submitted the request in a letter over the weekend, citing the need to \u201cprotect the integrity of the office\u201d and to \u201callow ongoing investigations to proceed without interference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg \u2013 13 July 2025 &nbsp; South Africa\u2019s Minister of Police, Senzo Mchunu, has formally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8908,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"article":[],"class_list":["post-8907","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/8907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munghanalonenefm.co.za\/munghanalonenefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article?post=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}