In a stunning revelation shaking South Africa’s law enforcement corridors, self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri has accused suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner General Shadrack Sibiya of accepting massive bribes to bury his fraud case. The Malawian preacher, facing extradition over R102 million in alleged fraud and money laundering, claims his team funneled millions—rumored at R12 million—directly to Sibiya in 2016. This “miracle payment,” as critics mock it, allegedly aimed to make serious charges vanish like a divine intervention.
Bushiri’s explosive video testimony, shared widely on social media, paints a vivid picture of corruption at the Hawks’ highest levels. He recounts how a police captain, acting as a proxy, approached his team post-arrest, demanding cash to “settle” the matter. Meetings allegedly unfolded at a Silverton, Johannesburg residence, where Sibiya himself reportedly received payments “in the name of the general.” Bushiri insists the demands escalated, with “so much money collected” to halt proceedings, only for a botched IPID sting—leaked by the NPA—to backfire, leading to his dramatic flight to Malawi.
Sibiya, no stranger to scandal, was suspended in 2015 and now faces probes by the Madlanga Commission into bribes, interference, and shady tenders. Bushiri’s bombshell revives these ghosts, timing perfectly with Malawi’s High Court overturning his extradition in late 2025. He alleges threats, assassination plots, and bail conditions rigged for surveillance, framing his escape not as flight from justice, but toward it.
South Africans are divided: devotees hail Bushiri’s “truth-telling” as prophetic courage, while skeptics decry it as deflection from his own woes. Neither Sibiya nor authorities have responded, but parliamentary committees loom. Is this a R12M miracle exposing rot, or a fugitive’s desperate gambit? As investigations intensify, the truth may yet demand its own offering