Sutcliffe is a politician disguised as a civil servant, and NEVER gives straight answers. I'll be very surprised if he ever comes back on the Mlaba/plagiarism thing.
Ask him about the Metro police illegal holding cell that he dismantled and had labelled as a "courtesy area" the day the media questioned its legality in May last year. He lied to the media, he lied to Exco and he lied to the ICD, saying it never existed. Now he thinks it's gone away.
Ask him about the traffic fines that his cops set for the Christmas period at almost triple the rate approved by the prosecuting authorities, and ask him how it feels to have to refund all that money to the suckers who actually paid.