Sindile Mfazi | Said It Was COVID. Five Years Later, They Dug Him Up

Sindile Mfazi died in July 2021. South Africa was told it was COVID. His widow never believed it — and five years later, the state dug him up and found poison. Lieutenant General Sindile Christopher "Pitso" Mfazi was the Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection — one of the most senior police officers in the country. At the time of his death, he was investigating his own headquarters: the Secret Services Account, a procurement universe of around one point six billion rand in COVID-19 personal protective equipment, and the fallout from the Phala Phala burglary. He kept a pocketbook and a diary. On the 10th of December 2020, at 18:33, he recorded an intelligence call from an unregistered number — a warning that there was a plot to assassinate him, and that senior police officers were involved. Seven months later, he was dead. On the night he died, witnesses describe men from police headquarters in his home, removing documents while his body was still upstairs. His widow, on the phone at that moment, can be heard saying: "Leave the cell phone. You are not going to have it." This is the full account — the diary, the exhumation, the testimony, the missing files, and the court case that has finally put a suspect in front of a magistrate. In this video: · Why the family rejected the COVID-19 explanation from day one · The exhumation, and the poison found in his remains · Pilasande Dotyeni's testimony to Parliament — the Secret Services Account, the keystroke request, and the driver's call · The general's own diary entry, and what investigators found in it · The Charl Kinnear case file he was trying to locate · Contraband intelligence he received days before his death · The July 2026 searches, and the former Crime Intelligence head now facing a charge under the Firearms Control Act 00:00 - Introduction & The Sudden Death of Lt. Gen. Sindile Mfazi 02:34 - The Family Suspects Foul Play: Silence from SAPS 05:11 - The Threat: Warnings Given to His Family 08:11 - Pushing for an Exhumation 09:27 - Forensic Findings: Inquest Becomes a Murder Investigation 10:12 - SAPS Official Briefing on the Murder Docket 13:35 - What Was Mfazi Investigating? The Crime Intelligence Unit 16:15 - Testimony on the Secret Services Account & R1.6B PPE Audit 20:20 - Parliamentary Disclosures: Corruption at Head Office 22:12 - Phala Phala Off-the-Books Operation Allegations 24:40 - The Alleged Removal of Documents & Files from His Home 27:33 - Calls for Evidence and Independent Parliamentary Inquiries 30:02 - The General's Pocketbook, Personal Diary & Death Threats 31:38 - Connections to the Charl Kinnear Investigation 36:33 - Alleged Political Interference & Refusal to Back Down 37:35 - Raids Across Gauteng & Evidence Seizures 40:02 - Examining the Links: Finance, Files, and Foul Play 44:00 - The Widow’s Plea for Thorough Justice 46:52 - Court Appearance of Former Head of Crime Intelligence 52:58 - Conclusion & Current State of the Investigation