Who and what is AfriForum?

AfriForum is an Afrikaans civil rights organisation that protects the rights of minority groups at national as well as provincial level, and anyone who can identify with AfriForum’s principles and objectives may join the organisation. AfriForum’s community plan focuses on mobilising communities to thus take control of their own streets and neighbourhoods again. AfriForum ensures that your constitutional and civil rights are recognised and protected at national level.

Wie en wat is AfriForum?

AfriForum is ’n Afrikaanse burgerregteorganisasie wat die regte van minderheidsgroepe op sowel nasionale as provinsiale vlak beskerm, en enigiemand wat met AfriForum se beginsels en doelstellings kan identifiseer, mag by die organisasie aansluit. AfriForum se gemeenskapsplan fokus daarop om gemeenskappe te mobiliseer om só weer beheer terug te neem oor hul eie strate en woonbuurtes. AfriForum verseker dat jou grondwetlike én burgerregte op nasionale vlak erken en beskerm word.

Where is the CPN report? AfriForum demands answers from SAPS

More than 13 years and five national police commissioners later, the recommendations of the CPN Forensic and Accounting Services’ investigation report into fraud, corruption, and mismanagement at the Forensics Services Division of the South African Police Service (SAPS) have not been implemented, but AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit has now been approached to change that. The Unit represents the three whistleblowers whose allegations led to the investigation, and who have allegedly been victimised since then.

The report has been presented to successive national commissioners since 2013, as well as Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police, and more recently the whistleblowers testified at the Ad Hoc Committee investigating allegations made by Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. The Unit represents former police officer Edwin Malatjie, and other serving members, and has written to National Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Puleng Dimpane.

The trio allege that, apart from police management’s failure to implement the report’s recommendations, a separate internal report has been released that indicates that the actual CPN report can no longer be found. The Unit has seen this correspondence.

That internal report, compiled by Major-General Mark Hankel and dated 7 November 2025, details his unsuccessful efforts to locate the CPN report within SAPS structures and contains his own recommendations arising from the investigation, which have also apparently not been implemented. The Unit believes the continued failure to act on the recommendations of both investigations raises serious questions about accountability within SAPS management and may amount to a dereliction of duty.

Adv. Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, says this appears to be another example of state funds being spent on forensic investigations merely to create the impression that allegations of impropriety are being taken seriously, only for the findings to be ignored. “This conduct should be investigated and reported as wasteful expenditure, which in this case is exacerbated by the fact that the CPN report seems impossible to locate at SAPS Head Office.

“We have noted the counter-allegations and recommendations against the aggrieved members but implore police management to stem the flood of negative perceptions flowing from the Madlanga Commission by doing their duty. The circumstances leading to our representing members and former members of SAPS can only be understood against the backdrop of police management’s concealment of the CPN report and its deliberate failure to act on the allegations investigated and reported by CPN Forensic Services and Major-General Hankel,” says Nel.

The Unit has asked SAPS management to inform the whistleblowers of the status of the CPN report and the process for implementing both the the CPN and Hankel recommendations.

Letter to Minister of Police – 1 September 2026 Download