Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan’s highly anticipated testimony before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee has taken a bizarre turn. Instead of focusing on the “rogue” police generals he promised to expose, the committee spent hours yesterday grillling O’Sullivan on his own credentials. In a moment that has gone viral across Mzansi, O’Sullivan conceded to ActionSA MP Dereleen James that he possesses no formal legal or engineering qualifications, calling himself “completely unqualified.”
The pushback didn’t stop there. O’Sullivan, who holds triple citizenship, had to defend himself against allegations of being a “foreign spy.” While he insists his loyalty is only to South Africa and that his record of busting corruption speaks for itself, the MK Party has been quick to question why he was given high-level security clearance at ACSA in the past. It’s a classic South African stalemate: the man trying to expose the “Mafia State” is now the one being investigated for his own “invisible” background.
