Your Days Are Numbered, Joburg’s Investigations Boss General Shadrack Sibiya Warns Corrupt City Officials

PEARL RANTSEKENG

THE mere mention of the words – fraud and corruption – evokes different emotions from most South Africans. Throw in the City of Johannesburg in the mix and you might as well have poured petrol into the fire!

Yet, there is one man who has no fear of setting his foot into that fire. And, it is none other than former provincial Hawks Head Major General Shadrack Sibiya.

The “General”, as Sibiya is fondly referred to, was appointed to the position of the city’s head of internal investigations by the then Johannesburg Executive Mayor Herman Mashaba four years ago.

Mashaba said Sibiya was the right man to lead the fight against corruption in the city as head of the Group Forensics Investigating Services (GFIS).

After all, General Sibiya came with the highest accolades as the former chief special investigator at the then Scorpions – the former Directorate of Special