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, Fighting crime with clean hands
, Dikatso Mametse I Johannesburg
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ts March 2003 11:59
, A Nigerian drug lord once offered Senior Superintendent Ernest Madzhie R1-
million to look the other way; the cop stared him straight in the eyes,
' handcuffed him and escorted him to jail.
"The more policemen take bribes, the more the criminals believe they have a
licence to commit crimes," says Madzhie, a man acclaimed by the police top
brass as one of their best.
National Commissioner Jackie Selebi, who early in his tenure recognised
Madzhie's integrity, holds him up as an example of the ideal South African
police officer. "Madzhie is an outstanding, dedicated, committed and honest
policeman who has served the South African Police Service and the
community of this country with great distinction."
Madzhie never planned to be a policeman while growing up in ruralVenda
and still does not conform to the stereotype most South Africans have of cops.
ln 30 years of service he has never used his gun. His calm manner when
dealing with criminals has earned him the respect of his colleagues and even
the lawbreakers he regularly puts behind bars.
Madzhie says he would be a multi-millionaire if he had accepted all the bribes
offered to him over the years.
"One guy offered me R1-million in exchange for my silence. He told me he
could make me rich," he recalls with a twinkle in his eye. The offer came after
he captured a Nigerian drug lord and busted a cocaine importation and
distribution network.
Madzhie says criminals have sent all kinds of intermediaries offering him
fortunes if he would drop cases against them. He says colleagues, lawyers
and even Premier Soccer League soccer players have been used to entreat
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him to accept bribes. But, he says with steely satisfaction, he has never
succumbed. "l thought about the community and couldn't imagine using this
money to better my life and that of my family while millions suffer and become
drug addicts.
"Some robbers willjustify their crimes and try to convince me to take the bribe
by saying they are just taking back the money the white people robbed from
their forefathers,"
Madzhie now works on countering"4l9" scam artists.
Section 419 was written into Nigeria's penal code in the late '1980s to crack
down on an advanced scam that hammered victims across the country. The
fraudsters pose as friends or relatives of deposed African leaders and send
out letters requesting help to move money from frozen accounts. Others claim
to be bank officials who have access to vast fortunes that betong to no one.
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match now! Born in a Venda village in 1950, Madzhie started life as a farm boy, herding
his father's goats and sheep and ploughing the fields every day after school.
He loved maths and science, and aspired to be a teacher. But that dream fell
flat once he finished school and failed to find a job in Louis Trichardt.ln 1972
he travelled to the then Witwatersrand, every ruralyoung man's El Dorado.
There he joined the police force in desperation. He recalls that white cadets
would be passed with a nudge and a wink, even if they fared poorly, but the
black recruits often had to repeat their subjects over and over.
In those days few black cops were made commissioned officers. A black
policeman could not arrest a white criminal unless a white officer was present.
"sometimes the criminals would call the office complaining that a black guy
was trying to arrest them."
Madzhie started off doing clerical work
- filing, taking complaints and writing
down crime victims' statements. He was transferred to the narcotics bureau in
1976 as a clerk, Two years later he was made a field cop, investigating
shebeens, prostitution, illegal gambling and drug syndicates.
"We were called the vice squad then and conducted all kinds of
investigations."
Things changed. Twenty years later, in 1996, he became a captain. Shortly
afterwards he was promoted to superintendent and then to senior
superintendent at the Crime lntelligence Management Centre. He has
investigated organised crime ever since.
He deals with drug trafficking, cross-border hijacking, transnational crime and
foreigners who commit crimes in South Africa. Now he has 30 officers in his
They promise a sizeable percentage of the funds to their victims and sweeten
the deal by saying the transfer will benefit one good cause or another. Once
the victims agree, they are sent vast amounts of official-looking paperwork.
The fraudsters usually ask the potential victims to meet them. Many have
been held for ransom, robbed or murdered once in the clutches of the scam
artists.
The hundreds of millions of rands generated by the s€ms then finance drug
syndicates and other criminal organisations.
As the heat grew in Nigeria the syndicates moved to fresh pastures and many
set up shop in South Africa. Madzhie delights in busting their operations and
putting them behind bars. His unit has already taken 170 of these con artists
off the streets.
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unit.
Madzhie has little time for people who whine about crime but fail to come
forward to report incidents and present evidence that could help the cops put
criminals away. He says it is the duty of citizens to come forward with details
of crime. "Police cannot always smell out where crimes are happening."
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Huge cocaine
haul found in
wine bottles
POLICE seizcd be'
rv,cct'r 180k8 and 360kg
of cocaine mixed rvith
u'ine, at the Kaserne
container dcPot in south-
ern Johsnnesburg on
TuesdaY.
The valuc ofthe drugs
whs estirnated at bc-
trveen R45 and R90 mil'
lion md is believcrl to bc
the largcst haul ever to
ertter the counrry, said
sookesman lnsPtctor
Mark ReYnolds .
P,-rli;l v.'cre tr:lrl r
container with South
Arnerican wine laccd
rvith cocaine arrivcd at
Durban hrrbour on
Novembcr 16.
"On FridaY the con'
iainer carne uP to lohan'
OfiE person was killed
and 1? others injured
whcn a minibus ta"ri
overturncd on thc
Heidclberg road east of
Johennesburg YesterdaY-
Johanncsburg uaffic
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NlackaY said the acct'
dcnt happcned shonlY
beforc 5Pm, not far frorn
lhc Johanncsburg fresh
produce market.
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who had hen holding Per-
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thc Krscrne depot
Detectir'es wetched it
but when it bccamc clear
it rvas not going to bc
clainred. theY oPened it'''
Insp RcYnolds srid.
lnside lhe conlalncr
were 11 600 boltles
connining about ? 500
liaes of winc rnixed with
coc:aine.
The cocaine $as to bc
cxrsctcd and sold bY r
Nrgerian dr'ug sYndicrtc
xbich opcratcd in Ciu'
teng, InsP RcYnolds
sdd.
The bottles werc laken
to the policc forensic
scicnce laboratorY in
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minibus in the Prcvailing
wet conditions'"
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medics were helPing the
iniured rvhile traffrc offr-
ci.ilr clerrcd the road of
debris.
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for,;cvcral kilometres'
but lYe should havc the
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bank robber convicted
By ELLIoTT SYLVESIER
A Germiston magistrate this
week convicted a Nigerian of a
multimi-llion-rand bank robbery
and critlcised hvo Brixton mur-
der and robbery rinit members
for their disregard for the larv
and their allegations that the
man was their irrformer.
The tongue-lashng from Mag-
istrate Deon Snyman was the
second admonition the Brlxton
unit's members had received
during the tria-t of Nigerian bank
robber Vitalis lbeawachi, who
was convicted this week of the
armed robbery of the Mercaatile
Bank of Lisbon on June 15 last
year.
After his arrest by members
of the Johannesburg organised
crime unit, Rl,Smillion worth of
travellers cheques and foreign
currency were found in hjs pos-
session, but Ibeawachi claimed
he was working as an bformer
for the Brlrlon unit. A year-long
cou-rt battle to
verify his claim
follorved, but judg-
ment seemed to
take a back seat in
the light of Sny-
mal's criticism of
members of the
Brlxton unit who
contended in court
that Ibeawachi
Tfure is no
needfor a
court of l"aw
Marais did not detain them
because "two suspects and a
source had told me who was
responsible". C,onveniently these
hl'o suspects escaped from cus-
tody ald the source was never
named.
"With people like Maraj.s and
Van Niekerk, there is no need for
a directorate of public prosecu-
tions. There is no need for a court
of law because they decide who is
guilly and who is not," Snyman
said.
He added that the officers'
ciajms that Nigerials were never
involved in bank mbberies was
"rubbish".
The magistrate had earlier
hauled Van Niekerk over the
coals, saying the Brixton murder
ard mbbery unit's methods of
entrapment to combat crime
were unacceptabie in terms of
the Criminal Procedure AcL
The two ofliiers were not pr+
sent during Snymaa's verbal
attack. Marais made a hasty exit
a-fter his question-
able testimony
dodging a televi-
sion crew at the en-
t:ance of the court.
Gauteng Safety,
Security and Pub-
lic Liaison Depart-
ment spokesperson
Mongezi Mnyani
said the conduct of
becawe thry
dtci"dc who
is guilty
.yas not guilty
//E Snyman compared the two
/ Brixton officers to the two organ-
,{ ir"d crime unit members, Lnspec-
/ tor Simon Ntuli and Capgrn
/ Ernest Madzie, whSlq_Xg_jg:, %'-
L. scribed as hon-est and reliable.
But the burly magistrate's
demeanour changed when he
addressed the testimony of Cap
tain Samuel Jacobus van Nie
kerk and Inspector Jacques
Burger Marais.
"If ever I sa-"v hvo biased wit-
nesses who were not impartial
and objective, it is Van Niekerk
and Marais," he said.
As for the methods of investi-
gation, Sn1'rnan said: "These are
strange tjmes, and stange meth-
ods might be ca-lled for because
crime is rife, but it is still not
acceptable. It is not strange that
an informer could commit crimes
himself."
Shrugging his shoulders, he
added: "Half of South Africa's
idormers could be giving,infor-
mation about the other half."
He had more harsh words for
Marais, who testified that shortly
after the bank robbery he came
across tlree men, one of -whonr
i was..in possession of bavellers
. cheques. Marajs {aiq{.$nt tuo
the Brixton oflicers had raised
eyebrows in the departnent:
"We want to see a fuII investiga-
tion into tlie two policemen.
Someone must provide answers,
and if there are any irregulari-
ties, they must face the fi:ll force
of the law."
Director Azlvinndini Nengov-
hela, spokesperson for the pre
viacial police commissioner, said
h-is deparhnent was not in a posi-
tion to react to Snyman's state
ment, but wonld decide after the
court records had been studied.
"It is a very interesting devel-
opment that he (Ibeawachi) was
found guiity but we will have to
examiae the records and see
whether the magistrate has made
any reco[lmendations before we
cal take action with regard to the
policemen involved-"
At the outset of the case, ANC
spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama
condemned the in-fighting be
tween the Brixton murder and
robbery unit and the organised
crime unit, uying any cormpt
ofticers should face the firll wrath
of the law. : ,
He aereed with Snyman that
the cou-irb1r Cor{d do witlout
unreliable police officers because
they were part driclparcel of c6r-
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