Police minister defends Phahlane's R10m house
7 December 2016
Cape Town – Police Minister Nathi Nhleko asked on Wednesday how people could determine that someone could not afford their house with their salary, just by looking at it.
He was briefing Parliament’s police committee for the last time this year on a variety of issues, when he mentioned "strange things" happening in the police.
This included an investigation by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) into how acting police commissioner General Khomotso Phahlane had managed to afford a house apparently worth about R8m. He had it built in the Sable Hills Waterfront Estate, north of Pretoria, between 2011 and 2012.
Nhleko said claims that Phahlane could not afford the house and, therefore, must have paid for it using illegal means, were ludicrous.