EFF leader Julius Malema pressed the South African Police Service over a R368 million bill said to cover policing for the EFF’s one-day national shutdown on 20 March 2023, reports Cape {town} Etc.
The figure emerged when SAPS chief financial officer Lieutenant-General Puleng Dimpane set out the cost of several major operations during testimony to Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee on 25 November 2025.
She said the amount reflected the resources used to deploy officers during the shutdown.
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TimesLIVE reports that Malema told the committee the party’s shutdown lasted a single day and asked why it had attracted such a large bill.
‘If you were talking about the EFF national shutdown, it was one day. It was in March 2023, one day and it cost you R368m?’ he probed.
Dimpane replied that she could not recall all the details. ‘My memory is leaving me. I can’t recall the exact issue, but there was a national shutdown during that period and we needed to deploy [officers],’ she told MPs.
She said operational decisions and the number of members deployed determine costs.
The committee continues to hear evidence as it probes alleged interference and irregularities in SAPS operations.
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