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Daily Maverick reports that former Ekurhuleni city manager Dr Imogen Mashazi told the Madlanga Commission on Monday that allegations against Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) officers of rape, sexual harassment and having children with female subordinates in the metro were merely hearsay.
She asserted that without a formal complaint, her hands had been tied. The allegations were first raised in 2016 by victims who reported them directly to Mashazi. Yet, until her retirement in July 2025, the only step she took was to introduce an “empowerment programme” intended to help women law-enforcement officers avoid becoming “sexual slaves”. But, after commission chair Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga tore through her testimony and chastised her for “doing absolutely nothing” to assist the victims and instead “sitting with folded arms”, Mashazi conceded. She said: “I take your point that doing that empowerment programme was not enough.” She admitted that the allegations persisted throughout her tenure.
Mashazi directly implicated suspended metro police chief Jabulani Isaac Mapiyeye. She stated: “It was also reported to me [that] chief of police Mapiyeye fathered multiple children with subordinates who were vulnerable to his abuse of power, including conduct amounting to sexual harassment, coercion and rape.” According to Mashazi, two alleged drunk-driving incidents involving Mapiyeye were quietly swept under the carpet. The Madlanga Commission is hearing evidence of alleged criminality, political interference and corruption within law enforcement
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Vincent Cruywagen at Daily Maverick
- Read too, Ex-Ekurhuleni city manager claims EMPD chief fathered children with subordinates, at The Citizen
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