Dr Godfrey Lebeya speaks about his relationship with Timmy Marimuthu

Shocking Official Disclosures Expose High-Level Police Intelligence Failures Surrounding Underworld Operatives and Phantom Assignments

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A tense interrogation unfolded before the judicial panel as former Hawks head Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya faced unrelenting questions regarding his direct and indirect connections to controversial figure Timmy Marimutu.

The probe established that the name Timmy Marimutu first crossed the desk of Godfrey Lebeya on December 30, 2010, during a formal investigation into massive corruption inside police appointment structures.

Godfrey Lebeya discovered that the South African Police Service had advertised 250 vacant positions within crime intelligence but moved to illegally appoint 290 individuals.

Four specific names were fast-tracked to take effect on January 1, 2011, prompting Godfrey Lebeya to intervene alongside a deputy national commissioner to halt the processing.

Despite those executive orders, the blocked candidates bypassed official channels and secured appointments between January 16 and January 23, 2011.

Among those unlawfully appointed individuals was a convicted former lawyer whose client funds had vanished, as well as the spouse of Timmy Marimutu.

Godfrey Lebeya testified that Timmy Marimutu repeatedly placed personal phone calls to him whenever the general traveled to KwaZulu-Natal.

While Godfrey Lebeya maintained he never met Timmy Marimutu face-to-face to keep necessary distance, he regularly dispatched subordinate police officers to meet Timmy Marimutu directly to collect sensitive underworld information.

Commissioners grilled Godfrey Lebeya on whether data gathered by these officers directly led to the rescue of a high-profile kidnapping victim held captive in Mpumalanga for 60 days.

Under heavy pressure, Godfrey Lebeya eventually admitted that his officers did receive intelligence regarding the kidnapping directly from Timmy Marimutu and relayed it back to leadership.

Panel members then confronted Godfrey Lebeya over whether he knew that the spouse of Timmy Marimutu was later dismissed from crime intelligence under Major General Dumisani Khumalo.

Godfrey Lebeya claimed complete ignorance of the dismissal, stating he never followed up after the initial appointment probe.

The inquiry shifted to why major crime targets operating under the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation went entirely unnoticed by executive leadership.

Godfrey Lebeya insisted he was overseeing more than 20,000 cases and prioritizing 100 at any given time, leaving him entirely unaware that Timmy Marimutu was under investigation for serious organized crime.

Despite holding a Doctor of Laws degree focused specifically on the legal nature of organized crime, Godfrey Lebeya admitted that the entire nation had only 72 active organized crime projects near the end of his tenure.

Godfrey Lebeya acknowledged that the unit failed to identify major criminal syndicates across the country, placing the primary blame on crime intelligence structures.

When asked directly if high-profile suspect Clive Naicker was included on the official list of target subjects, Godfrey Lebeya stated he could not recognize the name.

Godfrey Lebeya explained that individual target names were withheld from top-level oversight committees to prevent sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands.

The panel questioned Godfrey Lebeya regarding who held authority over the national project committee responsible for managing target names during his leadership.

Godfrey Lebeya revealed the position was initially held by the provincial head of the Northern Cape before shifting to divisional commissioners, identifying Lieutenant General Khumo Sibiya and later Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya himself in higher operational committees.

Pressing for specific identities, evidence leaders demanded the name of the Northern Cape provincial head who managed the project list.

Godfrey Lebeya admitted that the initial appointments of these provincial heads violated statutory regulations, forcing leadership to retroactively alter permanent contracts into seven-year terms.

The proceedings concluded with Godfrey Lebeya unable to recall the name of his own appointed provincial head on the spot, highlighting deep institutional record gaps at the highest levels of national security.

Dr Godfrey Lebeya speaks about his relationship with Timmy Marimuthu

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