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Security analyst Willem Els on Acting Police Minister Faraz Kachalia's plan to appoint General Intlantla Mkwanazi as head of the Hawks. The full video is on biznews.com. I'd love to know what you think is the strategy of acting police minister Faroz Kachalia with regards to the future of the most popular police general in South Africa. Hi, Chris. You know, it is very difficult to.

To look inside his head to see what exactly he wants. But what we can deduct from his announcement and the process that he put in motion, you know, the head of the hawks is appointed by the minister, not by the national commissioner, but also the other clauses must go to cabinet, and cabinet must also approve it. So that means that he submitted the memorandum and he put out the request to.

To cabinet, and only after they agreed on that, you know, the process of appointing him can start. So the reason why the minister came at this stage with this move is very interesting. Okay, remember, we are only days away from the elections, and also we need strong leadership when it comes to that. But what we see, the minister, you know, if you're an acting minister,

You will do only semantic changes and so on. Because at the end of the day, you know, you don't have that always in practice the confidence to make very decisive announcements. Because you know, in a week or a month's time from now, you may be replaced by the new minister of police. So that's why I think it demonstrates the urgency from his side to address organized crime, because we know that the hawks.

They address and they investigate all your serious organized crime cases. So to bring McKunnazi from it very interesting because remember, if you look at his background, he has been an operational cop. He was in special forces with the task force, and his whole career was on that side of the line when it comes to the police. And we

See that when he became the national commissioner, he started to gain some prominence there and make some decisions or the acting national commissioner. And then later on, when he became the provincial commissioner for KZN, we saw how that leadership stepped to the fourth and how he managed to also oversee the complicated cases and all the other challenges that you face in KZN. We see what he did there. He surrounded himself with a