172 days before the commission.

Dr Mark Shaw & Lt-Gen Seswantsho Godfrey Lebeya

The last public sitting before the commission's recess ran two witnesses and two registers. In the morning retired Hawks national head Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya concluded the evidence he began on 27 August, and evidence leader Advocate Lee Segeels-Ncube put a photograph in front of him. It had been recovered from the phone of murder-accused businessman Katiso 'KT' Molefe, and the commission's evidence is that it shows five men it has been calling the 'Big Five': Molefe himself, private security businessman Steve Motsumi, Ignatius Mothakathi, the man known as 'King Nyambose' - reported by SABC News and EWN as Andrew 'Boy' Mthethwa and by TimesLIVE and The Citizen as Jabu Mthethwa - and the late taxi boss Jotham 'Mswazi' Msibi. Lebeya said he knew none of it. 'I have no knowledge of that organised criminal grouping at all, and I even doubt if it is registered as an organised crime project,' he told the panel, per the African News Agency, and of the men in the picture: 'I don't think that it is strange that we do not know all people in South Africa. I do not know them.' The difficulty was a WhatsApp message. On 6 December 2024, the night Molefe was arrested at Sandhurst and Hawks units unexpectedly arrived, the businessman who uses the name Malcolm X wrote to Lebeya: 'Thank you for sending people who verified these gentlemen are policemen and King Nyambose really appreciates all your efforts general.' Lebeya's evidence, per The Citizen, was that he did not engage with it - 'I was not really interested in the message itself' and 'I did not ask him who is this King Nyambose' - and chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga would not leave it there: 'What were you being thanked for? And who on Earth is this Nyambose?' Segeels-Ncube put the pattern to him plainly: 'You were the head of the DPCI and there have been generals that have come before the commission who have been afraid to mention some of these individuals. I just find it bizarre that you do not know any of these individuals.' Lebeya also confirmed he had known since October 2023 that Malcolm X had been arrested with three police officers on corruption and extortion allegations. He closed on his own record: 'I am incorruptible.' In the afternoon the register changed completely. Dr Mark Shaw, executive director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, gave expert evidence placing everything the commission has heard this year inside an international measurement. Per EWN and SABC News, he told the panel that 'South Africa is in the top 5% of all countries in the world in respect of criminal markets and actors as measured by the index', that on a survey of 193 countries South Africa ranks seventh globally for organised crime, that its homicide rate exceeds Colombia's and Mexico's and now resembles Ecuador's, and that the country's criminal markets run from drug trafficking and extortion to financial crime, illicit trade and cybercrime. He tied the ranking to state capture and to criminal infiltration of state institutions, and pointed to what other jurisdictions did about it, including Italy's restructuring of its anti-mafia prosecution system and legislation on the unexplained wealth of public officials. The commission then rose. It goes into recess from 3 to 11 September and resumes on Monday 14 September. Nothing here is a finding. The 'Big Five' remains an alleged network, every person named in the photograph is presumed innocent, Lebeya denies wrongdoing, and none of it has been tested in any court.

Lt-Gen Seswantsho Godfrey Lebeya

Two matters shared the second-to-last sitting before the commission's short recess. The first was the appearance the inquiry has been trying to secure since June. Suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan was under subpoena to appear at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College on Tuesday morning and did not come; only his legal team did. The cross-examination of retired Hawks national head Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya was stood down so the panel could hear Khan's postponement application, and what the commission got was not a medical argument but a documentary one. Per the Mail & Guardian and TimesLIVE, evidence leader Advocate Adila Hassim SC put up an affidavit from Khan's treating doctor, Dr Fine, in which the doctor said he had altered a medical certificate at the request of Khan's son. The original, dated 22 May 2026, recorded that Khan would be fit to return to work on 30 June; a version produced on 20 August moved that date to 27 June and added a diagnosis of extreme stress, depression and anxiety. The doctor said he warned that changing a certificate already handed in could amount to fraud, and was told it had not been handed in. Hassim said the police records showed that it had, and that what SAPS had actually asked Khan for was more detail on his diagnosis, not a new date. 'It was a lie,' she told the commission, per The Citizen. She also framed why the commission was pressing: the interest 'is not an interest in General Khan's health as such - it's an interest in understanding why a senior public officer who is under a compulsory process' should not have to appear. Khan's counsel resisted an independent examination, invoking a 'white coat effect' and warning of 'a further cascade of the current condition that is recorded in the latest report'. Chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga refused to grant the postponement outright and instead borrowed the mechanism the commission used with Suleiman Carrim: Khan's evidence is postponed to Monday 28 September 2026 at 09:30, and he will be excused from appearing then only if he voluntarily submits by 8 September to an independent medical specialist agreed between his representatives and the evidence leaders, and that specialist reports that he cannot testify. His outstanding statement is due by 18 September. His general condition must be disclosed to the commission; the clinical detail may stay confidential. With the ruling delivered, Lebeya returned to the stand for his second appearance and evidence leader Advocate Lee Segeels-Ncube moved him off the Sandhurst arrest and onto the roughly 541kg of cocaine worth about R200 million that was seized at Durban harbour in 2021 and then stolen from a walk-in safe at the Hawks' Port Shepstone offices. Lebeya said he learned where the consignment was being kept only after it was gone: 'I can't recall him informing me as to where he has stored the drugs.' That is the opposite of what former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major General Lesetja Senona told this commission, which was that he had told Lebeya the Port Shepstone offices had safely stored a large quantity before. Segeels-Ncube put the fork to him directly: 'Because it's either that General Senona is lying, or you're lying, or you're both mistaken about what transpired.' Lebeya would not take it: 'I cannot say Senona had lied.' The commission also heard that the CCTV cameras and alarms at the office were not working and there was no round-the-clock guard, that firearms stored in the same place were left untouched, and that Senona had members down to the cleaners polygraphed after the theft while never being polygraphed himself, though the evidence is that he held keys to the safe room. Lebeya said the discipline of a provincial head's own conduct was a matter for the supervisory line, and said he had ordered both a fact-finding inquiry and a criminal investigation once he learned of the theft. He is part-heard. Nothing here is a finding. The allegations about the certificate, the theft and the storage are untested, no court has determined any of them, and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Lieutenant-Col Deenadayalan Govender

Lieutenant-Colonel Deenadayalan 'Deena' Govender, head of the Hawks' KwaZulu-Natal provincial tracing team and the officer at the centre of the commission's hit-squad phase, returned to the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College to continue the evidence he began on 21 August, before chief evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson SC. He came back having lost a procedural fight: per EWN his application to give this part of his evidence behind closed doors was refused on Sunday, so the questions about his bank accounts were asked in public. Two hearings then ran inside one sitting. In the first he was the accuser, hardening the allegation he first made on Day 164 into something with a date and an artefact: that on 20 August 2026, the day before he first took the stand, a man he names as Mavuso Ntandane pressed him to give evidence that provincial commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi had sanctioned 172 extra-judicial police shootings, that suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu was telephoned during the meeting and spoke to him, and that he recorded it. 'I know the minister's voice, I know it was him,' he told the commission, and of Mchunu: 'I respect this minister and I know him, I like him. But as an elder and senior person in government, he cannot lie.' Per the Sowetan he also testified that he was told acting national commissioner Lieutenant-General Puleng Dimpane had given Mkhwanazi seven days to explain the June 2026 briefing at which Mkhwanazi said 'we are at war' while Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo was inside Brooklyn police station, and that when he raised it Mkhwanazi told him 'you were not supposed to know about this'. In the second half he was the subject. Per The Citizen, Chaskalson took him through 65 cash deposits totalling R1.7 million into accounts held by him and his wife between August 2022 and December 2023 and told him the pattern had 'all the hallmarks of money laundering'. Govender broke down a R2.35 million property purchase across a bank loan, a mortgage bond, his son's account, his wife's credit card and R337,962 from a businessman he named as Josh Chellin; attributed other deposits to an FNB loan and to family; and, confronted with having credited the same two payments to his brother in bank records and to Chellin in his sworn affidavit, said 'I made a mistake somewhere along the line'. He denied taking money from Durban tow-truck operator Clive Naicker and denied any personal tie to him: 'My relationship with Clive Naicker is work-related. He assists with investigations. Um, I don't have a personal relationship with him, commissioner.' He is part-heard. Nothing here is a finding. His allegation against Mchunu is untested and Mchunu denies it; the allegations against Govender are untested, no court has considered them, and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Madoda Johannes 'Joe Ferrari' Sibanyoni

For a year this commission has heard about Joe 'Ferrari' Sibanyoni from other people. On Friday he came to the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College and read his own statement into the record. Madoda Johannes Sibanyoni, 60, president of the South African Local and Long Distance Taxi and Bus Organisation and the owner of a fleet of roughly 400 minibus taxis across Gauteng and Mpumalanga, was subpoenaed under a Rule 10.6 notice to answer the extortion and money laundering allegations that suspended Sergeant Fannie Nkosi and others put before the commission, and the claim that he is one of the businessmen in the syndicate Crime Intelligence calls the Big Five. He rejected it and told the commission a different story: that he was not the cartel's member but its target. He said gunmen shot him in 2006 and again in August 2022, that he does not regard surviving twice as fortune but as providence, and that 'when gunmen opened fire upon me in 2006 and again in August 2022, it was not merely a man they shot; it was a husband and a father'. He named the late taxi mogul Jotham 'King Mswazi' Msibi as the man behind the violence, said the two had agreed to retire at 60 and that Msibi later told him 'we die in the business', which he took as a threat, and said that after he confronted Msibi over the 2006 attempt, Msibi surrounded himself with men known in the industry as izinkabi, the isiZulu term for hitmen. He told the commission that Msibi's death in January 2024 brought relief because 'the source of the threat and so much suffering directed at me was gone', and that he was afterwards voted Msibi's successor at the head of the taxi body. He said he had taken his information to the police: per EWN he asked then Police Minister Bheki Cele for an inquiry and was refused. He also told the commission that the killing of the musician Oupa 'DJ Sumbody' Sefoka in November 2022 and the attempted killing of Seunkie 'DJ Vettys' Mokubung in 2024 were attacks on people close to him: 'the attempted life of DJ Vettys, and Mr Sefoka being killed, it was a matter of people that are close to me.' The same rifle has been ballistically linked to the Sefoka murder and to the attempt on Sibanyoni's own life. He separately faces extortion and money laundering charges over an alleged R2.2 million in protection fees demanded from a mining businessman between 2022 and 2025, which he denies, and he is the state's first witness in the attempted murder trial of Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala over the 2022 shooting. He read his statement without completing his evidence; cross-examination was set down for 21 September 2026. Nothing here is a finding. Everything Sibanyoni says about Msibi, who is dead, and everything said about Sibanyoni by other witnesses is untested, and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Lt-Gen Seswantsho Godfrey Lebeya

Retired Lieutenant General Seswantsho Godfrey Lebeya, national head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation from 2018 until his retirement in 2025, took the stand at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College for the first time, led by evidence leader Advocate Lee Segeels-Ncube, to answer the allegation that he sent Hawks members to interfere with the arrest of murder-accused businessman Katiso 'KT' Molefe at Sandhurst on 6 December 2024. The day opened on money rather than evidence: his attorney Eric Nwedo told the commission that Lebeya was appearing at his own expense after the South African Police Service refused his 12 November 2025 application for state-funded legal representation on 6 January 2026, arguing that the deciding official, Deputy National Commissioner Lieutenant General Tebello Mosikili, had once served under Lebeya and that the stated reason - that his version differs from the version of other police witnesses - was frivolous. Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga said the commission had no power to direct the police and that the remedy was a review: 'I do not think we can come to the doctor's assistance.' On the substance Lebeya denied the premise of the allegation, saying 'I do not know Mr Katiso Molefe. I was not contacted by Mr Katiso Molefe; I was contacted by Malcolm X' - a Johannesburg businessman he says he first met in April 2023 and regards as neither friend nor enemy, and who told eNCA in July 2025 that he made the call for Molefe's brother to ask whether there was a warrant. Lebeya said he directed two senior managers to verify the claim that people were impersonating the Hawks in his name, that he had never instructed members of the directorate to interrupt a legitimate police operation, and that with more than thirty known impersonation cases behind him, 'a reasonable national head who is aware of the existence of imposters will not sit back and do nothing'. He then put the failure on the chain of command, saying the operation was never communicated to him and that the obligation to inform the national head sat with the provincial commissioner in consultation with Lieutenant General Dumisani Khumalo. A second strand went elsewhere entirely: Lebeya testified that private investigator Paul O'Sullivan sought an update from him on the classified Phala Phala investigation and that he refused, and that O'Sullivan said at the time he was sitting with Dr Bejani Chauke, a political adviser to President Cyril Ramaphosa, whom he called a friend. Per SABC News, Lebeya also confirmed that he discussed the misconduct allegations against former IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson with then National Director of Public Prosecutions Advocate Shamila Batohi, corroborating evidence the commission heard in July 2026. He was part-heard when the sitting rose. Nothing here is a finding. Every allegation is untested, Molefe is charged and has not been convicted, O'Sullivan, Chauke, Johnson and Batohi have not answered this evidence before the commission, and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala

On his fourth day in the chair Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala was taken off the taxi bosses and the tender partners and onto a policeman. The subject was Major General Lesetja Senona, until June the provincial head of the KwaZulu-Natal Hawks, and the question the commission put all day was whether what Matlala calls a brotherly friendship was in fact a serving general working the inside of the state for a private contractor. Matlala's answer was that it was neither improper nor transactional. He described Senona as 'not friends but he's my older brother', said they met around 2018 or 2019 at a wedding, and told the commission that after police raided his Pretoria home on 6 December 2024 and seized his phones, leaving him unable to transact, the general lent him R20,000. When a second raid followed on 18 December 2024 Senona undertook to find out what was behind it and, on Matlala's account, never came back with anything. The commission then put the documents up. WhatsApp messages of 13 May 2025 showed Senona advising Matlala to take legal advice with a view to challenging the South African Police Service's cancellation of the R360 million Medicare24 contract; asked what interest a Hawks general had in a police contract, Matlala said there was none, 'but he knows that I need the contract'. Senona also accompanied him to a meeting with KwaZulu-Natal provincial commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi at Umhlanga on 15 April 2025, a meeting Matlala said was arranged by former police minister Bheki Cele and sought so that he could reach the police human resources head about his company's non-performance problems; Matlala said Senona took no part in the tender discussion. It was at that meeting, he told the commission, that he raised payments made to Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya, insisting the payments were made by other people and not by him. Where the questioning turned to a joint property venture with Senona and the general's son Thato, an apartment bought to rent out for under R3 million, Matlala refused to answer at all, saying his conduct with Senona is itself under investigation for corruption. Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga noted that Senona had given the commission his own account of that project and asked for the inconsistency to be explained. Nothing here is a finding. Every allegation is untested, Senona denies wrongdoing and has given evidence of his own, Sibiya has not answered this account before the commission, and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala

With his lead counsel Advocate Annelene van den Heever back in the room after a day's illness, Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala returned to the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College for a second consecutive day - and for the first time in this stream the commission got past the procedural fight and into the money. Evidence leader Advocate Mahlape Sello SC broke the deadlock over the privilege against self-incrimination by narrowing it: the privilege is not a blanket, she argued, a person can only incriminate themselves in relation to a specific offence, and Matlala is not a suspect in the Special Investigating Unit's Tembisa Hospital case. Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, invoking Constitutional Court authority that a claim of privilege must fall within clearly defined parameters rather than be asserted in general terms, directed that he answer. He then did. Matlala told the commission that he and businessman Hangwani 'Morgan' Maumela - identified by the SIU as the central figure in an alleged R820 million procurement fraud at Tembisa Hospital - met over a shared enthusiasm for sports cars around 2015 or 2016, put roughly R1 million each into a joint account, and used a company between them to answer requests for quotation from the Gauteng Department of Health from about 2018, each taking ten percent of what the other brought in, for something in the order of R5 million over five years. He also drew the first direct line the commission has heard between Maumela and the late taxi boss Jotham 'King Mswazi' Msibi, named in evidence as a former leader of the alleged 'Big Five' cartel, saying he introduced the two men - the occasion being a Pagani Huayra that Maumela wanted to sell and for which Msibi was to find a buyer. WhatsApp messages were put up showing Matlala's intention to buy a private jet with Msibi. Earlier, Advocate Sello and Advocate van den Heever clashed over whether the defence could interrupt a line of questioning before it was finished. The commission adjourned with Matlala still part-heard. Nothing here is a finding. Every allegation is untested, Maumela has not answered any of it before this commission, Msibi is dead and can answer none of it, and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala

The commission spent a sitting day arguing about whether it could sit at all. Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala returned to the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College under subpoena to account for what his first statement left out - among the omissions, the names of suspended deputy national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya, former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major-General Lesetja Senona and former organised crime head Major-General Richard Shibiri - and instead the day was consumed by a fight over his lawyers. His lead counsel, Advocate Annelene van den Heever, was too ill to attend. Her junior, Advocate Fatima Missi, asked for the evidence to stand down to Tuesday so that a replying affidavit and heads of argument on Matlala's claim to the privilege against self-incrimination could be filed, and told the commission that consulting her client at Kgosi Mampuru II had been obstructed. Evidence leader Advocate Adila Hassim opposed the request and said the application could have been brought months earlier. Chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga refused the stand-down, observing that written submissions are prepared in the main for the assistance of the decision-maker, and ordered that the self-incrimination argument be heard at midday. Missi then told the commission that if it would not give her the afternoon, her instructions were to bring an application interdicting the proceedings - a threat that collapsed after the lunch adjournment when Matlala, asked directly from the witness box, said he had not decided whether his lawyers should withdraw and was 'actually in the dark'. Commissioner Sesi Baloyi called the gap between counsel's instructions and her client's answer deeply problematic. The planned self-incrimination application was withdrawn for the day and Matlala's evidence continued. Nothing here is a finding. Every allegation before the commission is untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Lieutenant-Col Deenadayalan Govender & Fadiel Adams

The man whose complaint started the Crime Intelligence prosecution finished his evidence by saying he had been used, and the officer at the centre of the KwaZulu-Natal hit-squad allegations finally took the stand to answer them. Fadiel Adams opened his third day at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College by apologising for being under-prepared and retracting parts of Thursday's account: he had not phoned the man he knew as 'Elvis' from inside Orlando SAPS, he said - Elvis was at a tyre shop, sent his location, and the two arrived at the station together. He also accepted that Lieutenant-General Peter Jacobs was entitled to call for his dockets, abandoning the suggestion that their move to Pretoria was sinister. Evidence leader Advocate Lee Segeels-Ncube then played the recording of his 6 January 2025 consultation with IDAC state advocate Drushantha Ramsamy - over his objection, and after he told the commission he intends to lay criminal charges against her and report her to the Legal Practice Council. On the recording Adams told IDAC he had no connections at Orlando police station, the opposite of the evidence he has now given about Witness G, the Crime Intelligence colonel described in evidence as Brown Mogotsi's handler and a friend of Major-General Feroz Khan. Commissioner Sesi Baloyi called it deliberate: 'You changed it today because you were confronted with the facts.' She also confronted him with a second contradiction - that he told Parliament's ad hoc committee that suspended Inspector-General of Intelligence Imtiaz Fazel had phoned him personally, and told this commission it was a member of Fazel's staff - and put the consequence to him: 'One of these two institutions must hold you to have lied under oath.' Adams called it a 'genuine, stupid, sloppy mistake'. He conceded too that he had not been truthful about when he first contacted Police Minister Senzo Mchunu's chief of staff Cedrick Nkabinde, an email trail showing contact before the 1 November 2024 date he had given. On the section 27 referral that founded the whole prosecution he maintained that the version IDAC produced is not his: 'Someone has altered this thing. I don't know why; I don't know how.' Asked at the end whether he had been used, he did not fight it: 'I do believe I was used.' Then the KwaZulu-Natal phase resumed. Lieutenant-Colonel Deenadayalan Govender - attached to the Serious Organised Crime Unit of the Hawks and head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation's KwaZulu-Natal provincial tracing team, and the officer IPID's Len Barnabas John and the family of Bevan Loftus have named in evidence over alleged extrajudicial killings and alleged payments of millions of rands - took the stand for the first time, before evidence leaders Advocate Matthew Chaskalson SC, Advocate Mpilo Sikhakhane and Advocate Teboho Mosikili. Elsewhere in Pretoria the same morning, the National Prosecuting Authority formally and unconditionally withdrew all fraud and corruption charges against Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and six Crime Intelligence co-accused. Nothing here is a finding. Every allegation is untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Fadiel Adams

Fadiel Adams named his source, and the source is dead. Continuing his evidence at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College under evidence leader Advocate Lee Segeels-Ncube, the National Coloured Congress MP told the Madlanga Commission that roughly 90 percent of what he alleged about Crime Intelligence came from the late Major-General Andre Lincoln, the former head of Nelson Mandela's Presidential Investigation Task Unit and of the Western Cape Anti-Gang Unit, who died on 30 May 2025. Adams had not named him to the police minister, to the Inspector-General of Intelligence or to IDAC, and only did so after Lincoln died: 'I wouldn't have mentioned him if he was alive.' The day turned on a 39-minute paper trail. Adams laid charges at Orlando SAPS in Soweto on 31 October 2024; the docket bears a 13:30 stamp. At 08:21 the next morning an email sent through fellow NCC MP Sakiena Frenchman's address told suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu that Gauteng police had 'followed the same modus operandi as the Western Cape' and were interfering in the investigation. It was forwarded to Mchunu's chief of staff Cedrick Nkabinde at 08:25 and at 09:04 Nkabinde instructed a major-general to report back by Monday 4 November. Segeels-Ncube put it to Adams that nothing had happened in those hours except a phone call from Lincoln, and told him: 'No, Mr Adams, you have the CAS numbers now. You cannot rely on a dead man every time. It is unacceptable.' Adams conceded the wording was wrong: 'I will concede that I could have worded it better.' Commissioner Sesi Baloyi said the sequence 'stinks of machinations' and that 'there is just something wrong about this whole process'. Commissioner Sandile Khumalo took apart the allegation that Adams's dockets had been hidden in a safe in Pretoria: they went to national office because Adams's own complaint to the minister triggered an inspectorate investigation under Divisional Commissioner Lieutenant-General Peter Jacobs, whose Colonel Phillips called Adams repeatedly and was, on Adams's own admission, brushed off on Lincoln's advice. Adams accepted it: 'I understand and I accept that I'm the one that muddied the water.' The commission also put Witness G to him - the Crime Intelligence colonel identified in evidence as Brown Mogotsi's handler and a friend of suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan - as the man Adams knew only as 'Elvis', who met him at Orlando and handed him to a detective. Adams confirmed the identification, denied ever meeting the man again, and denied that Mogotsi had any hand in where he laid the charges, saying he spoke to Mogotsi once by phone, at Lincoln's house, about Lincoln's unpaid pension. The morning opened with a subpoenaed Johannesburg Metro Police officer being stood down because no statement had been filed, and the sitting adjourned early at 14:00 so Adams could listen to the full two-and-a-half-hour recording of his 6 January 2025 IDAC consultation, made by state advocate Drushantha Ramsamy, before clips are played. He resumes at 09:30 on 21 August. Nothing here is a finding. Every allegation is untested, Adams has himself laid a criminal case against IDAC officials, and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Fadiel Adams

Fadiel Adams - Member of Parliament, leader of the National Coloured Congress, and the complainant whose section 27 referral founded the entire Crime Intelligence prosecution - returned to the Madlanga Commission at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College and admitted that what he had told the commission about the correspondence was wrong. His first appearance on 11 August had collapsed into a dispute about a ten-month delay in filing his statement, which he blamed on a Parliament-issued laptop that persistently froze; chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga called the explanation unbelievable, Parliament said its ICT records showed no such fault, and his evidence was put off to 19 August. On Wednesday the chairperson took him through the paper trail himself. A Rule 3 notice, sent through the commission's attorney on 3 October 2025, asked Adams to answer allegations that KwaZulu-Natal commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi had made against him - that he had obtained Crime Intelligence information he was not entitled to and had used it recklessly to pursue charges against members of the Political Killings Task Team. Adams had told the commission he only saw that request about three months ago. The record showed he answered it on 14 October 2025, eleven days later, and asked to testify. 'The information I submitted was wrong,' he said. 'I did forget about this email.' He resisted the suggestion that he had set out to mislead anyone - 'I could have done better and should have done better' - and told the commission, 'I take the Madlanga Commission seriously.' On the emails he did receive, he said: 'I observed an email asking three questions, however I expected more questions, therefore I did not respond to it,' adding that he had had numerous issues with his laptop. Madlanga noted that Parliament issues members three devices. Adams said he had sent a lawyer's letter challenging Parliament's account and that its technicians could verify the fault. The commission also played back media interviews in which Adams denied receiving any correspondence from the inquiry while simultaneously claiming he had approached it himself. The substance behind the credibility fight is the reason he matters: Adams laid six criminal cases in 2024 against Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and other senior officers and took his complaint to the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, and it is that referral the commission has spent a month examining - the case the National Prosecuting Authority provisionally withdrew on 27 July 2026 before plea. Adams is himself serving a 20-day suspension from Parliament, imposed on 5 August 2026 over an ethics finding unrelated to this inquiry. Nothing here is a finding against him. The allegations he made and the allegations made about him are all untested, and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

No witness took the stand - the official record for the day reads 'Witness : None' after Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala's testimony was postponed to 24 August - and the Madlanga Commission spent the sitting inside a dead man's phone instead. Evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson SC led WhatsApp messages, photographs and videos extracted from devices belonging to the late taxi boss Jotham 'King Mswazi' Msibi, described in evidence as a former leader of the alleged 'Big Five' cartel. The centrepiece was an alleged plan to acquire a 'grabber' - an IMSI catcher capable of covertly intercepting cellphone communications - from a Czech Republic supplier by representing that the buyer was the South African Police Service, and then to resell the technology in eSwatini. On the messages led in evidence the alleged participants were Msibi, suspended SAPS sergeant Fannie Nkosi, murder-accused businessman Katiso 'KT' Molefe and private security businessman Steve Motsumi, with Nkosi alleged to have applied SAPS stamps to the procurement paperwork. Chaskalson told the commission: 'The Czech Republic has been told that this is a demonstration for the South African Police Service.' The chats date from January 2023 and refer to the 'Swazi deal'; Msibi's own message on it reads, 'It's on the table but they have to display. We don't want to become fools.' A separate procurement thread involving suppliers in Paris and Hamburg concerned active monitoring systems valued at about R1.16 million. The second strand moved to Ekurhuleni. Chaskalson showed that on 26 April 2023 Msibi sent businessman Zesimdumise 'Ze' Nxumalo the details of a contract for the project management unit and technical services on Ekurhuleni's integrated rapid public transport network, months before Camp Rock, a company linked to Msibi's interests, won it; that Msibi pressed 'have you spoken to Jose, please, and the Ekurhuleni issue' and Nxumalo answered 'please give me until Tuesday, all will be well'; and that in October 2023 Nxumalo confirmed the submission had reached the bid evaluation committee. On 23 September 2023 Motsumi sent Msibi the contact details of Dr Imogen Mashazi, then Ekurhuleni's city manager, and Msibi called her two days later - the commissioners were careful to say they do not know what was said on that call and that no inference should be drawn. A message about roughly EUR46,256 said 'she' had received about R1 million; Commissioner Sandile Khumalo stated plainly, 'we have not established that the she is her', and the commission said it would approach the South African Reserve Bank for the banking records. A third strand was new: a joint venture between businessman Suleiman Carrim's Ziggy Investments and Transnational Coaches connected to subsidised bus contracts in Gauteng and the North West, with R700,000 paid to Santaco, R300,000 outstanding from North West entities and R1 million paid into Tucofin, a company of which Msibi was a director. Chaskalson said the connection had not previously been identified by investigators. The day closed on photographs and video of a cannabis growing operation at Jack Frost Pharmaceuticals in Germiston, which the evidence suggested was in production before the licence issued on 19 September 2022: 'what we are looking at is production that took place before a licence was issued, or certainly before this licence was issued.' Msibi is dead and cannot answer any of it. Everyone else named has given no evidence in answer, none of it has been tested, no court has considered it, and all of them are presumed innocent.

Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala

The witness the whole inquiry has been waiting for finally took the stand, and then declined to answer most of what he was asked. Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala - the businessman named in Crime Intelligence testimony as a leading figure in the alleged 'Big Five' cartel, and the man whose R360 million SAPS Medicare24 health-services tender runs through the spine of this commission - appeared under subpoena at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College in Pretoria, his appearance brought forward from 1 September. Evidence leader Advocate Mahlape Sello led him; his counsel was Advocate Annelene van den Heever; Commissioner Sandile Khumalo sat with chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga. Matlala read a set of denials into the record and then, on almost every question that touched his pending criminal trial, invoked the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination. He denied any relationship with suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu - 'I have never met Minister Mchunu and have had no interactions with him' - and said the same of suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Maj-Gen Feroz Khan. He said none of his companies were ever awarded a contract by the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department and that CAT VIP Protection provided security to former Ekurhuleni mayor Tania Campbell without financial gain. He confirmed he had met KwaZulu-Natal commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, but refused to say what was discussed. On the alleged delivery of 20 live impala to Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya's farm, captured on a recording, he said: 'I do not want to incriminate myself because I know that the recordings are under investigation.' On the Medicare24 tender itself he placed on record only that it had since been terminated, and claimed privilege. He did make admissions: that he approached businessman Suleiman Carrim for funding and that the arrangement was a R15 million loan - Carrim told the commission in March it was R10 million - and that Hangwani Morgan Maumela is a friend and former business associate who was once a director of CAT VIP Protection, per IOL's report from the hearing. He said he knew three Gauteng businessmen linked to alleged criminal syndicates, among them the late taxi boss Jotham Msibi. Of former commission witness Brown Mogotsi, who first approached him after a police raid claiming to be from Mchunu's office, Matlala said: 'I actually hate him. He caused a lot of problems for me.' Commissioner Khumalo corrected him on his own corporate footprint, pointing out that the evidence showed three companies, not two: Medicare24, CAT VIP Protection and Black AK Trading and Supplies. Sello pressed the limits of the privilege - 'the question is simple: were you induced or threatened to give false information?' - but the day ended in adjournment rather than answers: Matlala's team is to file a supplementary affidavit and his testimony resumes on Monday 24 August 2026. Nothing said or refused here is a finding. Every allegation is untested, Matlala's fraud, corruption and money-laundering trial is set down for 11 September 2026, and he and everyone he named are presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

For the first time in its existence the Madlanga Commission resolved to lay criminal charges against a witness. North West businessman Suleiman Carrim, who has avoided giving evidence since March 2026 on grounds of ill health, did not appear on the day the commission had ordered him to attend in person, and had not submitted to the independent medical examination the commission's 29 July ruling made the only alternative to appearing. Chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga instructed the commission's secretary, Dr Nolitha Vukuza, to lay criminal charges, and was explicit that the commission would lay the charges itself rather than recommend that anyone else do so - what follows is then a matter for the police and the prosecuting authority. He also ruled that Carrim will no longer be required to appear and that the commission will make its findings on the evidence he already gave on 9 and 10 March 2026. Evidence leader Advocate Adila Hassim set out the commission's attempts to arrange the independent assessment and said the report finally received two days before the hearing was 'essentially an opinion by the same treating doctor' and did not address the daily outings; the commission had been shown that Carrim, said to be too unwell to testify, had been out to Woolworths and Kauai. Madlanga put it to his counsel plainly: 'From where I am sitting, they appear to have been outings even if you say they are not outings.' Carrim's advocate Kameel Premhid argued that a criminal referral was unnecessarily punitive and that a less intrusive course existed - his treating doctor had offered to testify privately and answer the commission's questions on the medical reports. Carrim is the businessman linked in evidence to an R360 million SAPS health services contract and to the co-funding of a police tender awarded to Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala. The decision lands with the commission's evidence deadline of 2 October 2026 six weeks away and, on Yusuf Abramjee's public count, roughly 35 working days and scores of witnesses still to come. Nothing here is a finding against Carrim on the underlying allegations, which remain untested; he is presumed innocent.

Gregory Loftus & Ashley Houston

The Madlanga Commission's new KwaZulu-Natal stream moved from the statistics to a single family. The witness was Gregory Loftus, a former police officer and the father of Durban tow-truck operator Bevan Loftus, who was shot dead by a South African Police Service task team on 1 April 2023, led by evidence leader Advocate Sikhakhane SC. Gregory Loftus told the commission that his son 'was murdered by the police under the guise of a legitimate police operation and at the instance of Clive Naicker, a competitor of Bevan in the tow truck industry and alleged drug dealer'. The detail that gives his evidence its force is the paper trail: on 31 March 2023, the day before the shooting, he deposed to an affidavit supporting an urgent interdict application to stop Captain Deena Govender and the SAPS from killing his son, and 'a day after the application was issued, Captain Deena Govender and a group of SAPS officers under his command murdered my son anyway'. Bevan Loftus and four other people died in what police described as a drug raid on a flat in Morningside, Durban. Gregory Loftus rejected the account that his son was a drug dealer or a killer, said he lived modestly off a legitimate towing business, and told the commission the drug narrative was constructed after the fact to justify the shooting; he also described harassment of his son by police that he said began in 2022, and told the commission that five of Bevan's drivers had been shot since 2020. The commission then heard a directly contradictory strand from retired SAPS captain Ashley Houston, a firearms expert who attended the scene, who described Bevan Loftus as a notorious figure associated with the local Hollywood gang - but whose forensic evidence was, if anything, harder on the police account. Houston told the commission the task team's version was 'highly improbable': bullet holes and blood spatter were concentrated low on the walls and on the floor, 'most blood spatters were low on the wall and mostly on the floor', which he said did not fit a standing shootout, and the bodies lined up in the lounge did not match the wound trajectories he would expect from rifle fire in a small flat. The officers' account was that they found a door ajar, that men jumped from a couch, and that a shootout followed in which 27 rounds were fired and five people died. Officers named in the operation include Captain Deena Govender, Captain Pedro Rodrigues, Constable Matthew Halford, Yogandram Megan Munsami, Michael Menzi Shabalala and Metro Police officer Jevon Lee China. On Day 157 IPID's Len John had alleged that Govender received more than R2.7 million connected to the killing of Bevan Loftus and more than R2.5 million from a tow-truck company owner. Every allegation is untested, none of the officers has given evidence in answer, no court has considered any of it, and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Len Barnabas John

After a month inside the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, the Madlanga Commission turned to KwaZulu-Natal and to the allegation that police task teams there have been operating as hit squads. The witness was Len Barnabas John, deputy director for investigations at the Independent Police Investigative Directorate in KwaZulu-Natal, and his evidence was drawn from IPID's examination of 149 deaths at the hands of SAPS task teams between April 2023 and 31 May 2026, of which he had focused on 77 cases. He told the commission that in a number of these the police did not act in self-defence: 'we have identified through our investigation that in these killings you will get a shooting where six people are shot and killed - when you do an investigation, you find only two firearms', and, of the pattern as a whole, 'they go out to kill the person; that is why we indicate extrajudicial'. He described three units targeting illicit drugs, cash-in-transit robberies and taxi-industry crime, and told the commission the majority of the shootings of alleged cash-in-transit suspects involved a task team under Lieutenant-Colonel Deenadayalan Govender, with Captain Pedro Rodrigues also named in the command structure. Task team members generally said they had acted on Crime Intelligence information about suspects' whereabouts, but that information was often not verified against other investigations, case dockets or the detectives responsible; suspects were sometimes killed without case numbers against their names, officers sometimes could not identify the people they had shot, and in some incidents residents of hijacked houses occupied by syndicates were killed alongside them. John further alleged that Govender, whose SAPS take-home pay was under R26,000 a month, received suspicious payments of more than R2.5 million from a tow-truck company owner between August 2022 and December 2023, and was paid more than R2.7 million in connection with the killing of alleged drug figure Bevan Loftus. He told the commission the tow-truck industry in the province is deeply entangled with the drug trade - 'we believe that tow trucks are used for transporting drugs; I'm not saying all the trucks, but in many of these cases, the tow truck and drug industries go together' - and that police officers helping tow operators find clients had left the industry open to use by organised crime. Commission spokesperson Jeremy Michaels said the alleged hit squads 'target suspects in cash-in-transit (CIT) robberies, as well as taxi operators and drug syndicates under the guise of a Task Team'. The commission emphasised that it is not itself investigating extrajudicial killings; the evidence goes to criminal infiltration of the police. This entry was written while the day's proceedings were under way. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy

Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy returned to the Madlanga Commission, led by evidence leader Advocate Segeels-Ncube, and named a cabinet minister in the route by which classified intelligence reached the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption. She testified that suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu bypassed the prescribed procedure to get an Inspector-General of Intelligence report on Crime Intelligence officers into IDAC's hands. The IGI had told the directorate in January 2025 that material from its live investigations could not be shared while those investigations were under way; by September 2025 IDAC chief investigator Dylan Perumal told Ramsamy and colleagues that Mchunu had arranged for someone to fly to him in the Eastern Cape with a hard copy of the report. The report was still classified when it reached Perumal and had not been declassified before he forwarded it to Ramsamy by WhatsApp; Perumal had called it 'golden' because it was believed it would help the case against Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and his senior colleagues. Ramsamy told the commission that specific channels prescribed by the Intelligence Services Oversight Act had to be followed to obtain an IGI report and that they were not, and the commission heard that the National Prosecuting Authority had not authorised the report's use before this inquiry. She also described a tense January 2025 meeting with IGI legal staff at which Perumal became agitated and used what was characterised as 'cowboy tactics', after which IGI advocate Jayashree Govender declined to cooperate. Separately that day, the commission dealt with the ten-month delay in MP Fadiel Adams's statement; Adams attributed it to a parliamentary laptop that persistently froze and needed repeated repairs, chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga called the explanation 'unbelievable', and Parliament issued a statement that evening saying its ICT records reflected no report of persistent malfunction, hardware failure, repeated freezing or repeated submissions for repair. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Matthews Sesoko

Matthews Sesoko, head of investigations and operations at the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption and formerly head of investigations at IPID, gave evidence at the Madlanga Commission led by evidence leader Advocate Pooe - and the picture he drew was of an official stripped of authority over the very cases the commission has spent a month examining. Sesoko told the commission he was abducted on 7 November 2025, assaulted and abandoned near Rabie Ridge in Midrand, with his work cellphone and laptop taken, and that he returned to duty on 13 January 2026. On his return his authority had been substantially reduced: chief investigators no longer reported to him but directly to then IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson, and his responsibilities were cut back largely to administrative matters such as leave and travel. He said he no longer chairs the directorate's Operations Management Committee - 'a decision was made that the DDPPs would now chair that committee' - and that he was given no reason for the change. Asked why he had not intervened in the Crime Intelligence investigation, he gave his experience at his previous employer, the kidnapping and having been unlawfully charged himself as reasons why he did not 'impose himself' on the docket, and said plainly of the directorate's decision-making: 'To be honest, sometimes the decisions that ID would take, I really wouldn't understand them.' Much of his evidence went to how IDAC selects the cases it takes and declines, and to the directorate's own written procedures - the commission heard that IDAC's investigation manual had been approved rather than left in draft, and that the directorate has no clearly defined consequences for officials who fail to follow due process. On the evidence of that week chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga raised, for the first time, the prospect that the commission could recommend that IDAC be closed down altogether. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy

Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy resumed her part-heard evidence before the Madlanga Commission, led by evidence leader Advocate Segeels-Ncube, and the allegation moved from how the Crime Intelligence suspects were chosen to an alleged plan to manufacture a charge against the national police commissioner. Ramsamy testified about a meeting at which then IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson instructed her team not to inform General Fannie Masemola about a set of investigations before he appeared at Parliament's portfolio committee on police: 'Adv Johnson said that the national commissioner should not be informed of the investigation. She said the national commissioner would appear at the portfolio committee on policing soon and we should let him lie at the portfolio committee.' Asked by Commissioner Advocate Sandile Khumalo SC whether that amounted to a set-up for Masemola, she answered, 'Correct.' The intention she described was that if Masemola unknowingly gave a false account to the committee he could then be charged with perjury; the matters allegedly kept from him included the disputed appointment of General Nosipho Madondo, the General Philani Lushaba matter, hotel and related spending, the Political Killings Task Team investigation and the protection detail of DA MP Ian Cameron, who has since publicly denied any role in a plot against Masemola. Ramsamy said of the shape of it: 'It looked and became evident that there was a line of march and that line of march was to get generals Khumalo and Masemola in an accused box.' She also testified that Johnson had given her the information and the names for a section 28(13) application in 2024 and then denied doing so before this commission, that Johnson had 'threw her under the bus', and that IDAC's wellness department had received numerous staff complaints about her treatment of them. She broke down while recounting a 2025 encounter with Johnson and the commission adjourned briefly to let her compose herself. Her evidence also touched the Crime Intelligence forklift investigation under 'Project Diversion', where she said chief investigator Dylan Perumal had told her in January 2025 that Police Minister Senzo Mchunu had arranged for a witness to be flown to the Eastern Cape to consult with him: 'I had assumed that the minister's office had paid for it, because I had later met this witness and he would not have been of financial means to have flown himself.' All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Advocate Peter Serunye

Advocate Peter Serunye, a Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions at the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption and the senior prosecutor who inherited the Crime Intelligence case, told the Madlanga Commission the case never made sense to him. Led by evidence leader Advocate Pooe, Serunye testified that the arrest of Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and six co-accused was premature - that they were brought to court before the investigation was complete and before critical evidence had been gathered, and that investigators had 'proceeded on allegations rather than evidence'. On the corruption count in particular he said the theory collapsed at the first question: 'it was not apparent what she could offer the generals in return, nor what unlawful act she was to perform', a reference to Brigadier Dineo Mokwele, whose appointment founded the charge. He described discovering at a June 2025 court appearance that junior state advocate Joy Hlatshwayo was handling the bail hearing alone with only investigating officer Brian Padayachee, that the J15 administrative form was incomplete and that no bail affidavit existed, and said he intervened with fellow DDPP Sibusiso Tshikovhi. After taking over the prosecution on 8 August 2025 he repeatedly asked for MP Fadiel Adams's section 27 referral - the founding complaint - and was refused it; at a meeting on 1 September 2025 then IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson asked why he would not simply accept the investigators' assurances and urged that the prosecution proceed. He emailed Johnson warning that there was at most a prima facie case of fraud and no case of corruption on the available evidence. Serunye said the evidence that has since emerged had fundamentally changed his understanding of the matter and left him convinced that he and Hlatshwayo had been drawn into an investigation they should never have been part of - that he believed he had been 'set up'. The National Prosecuting Authority provisionally withdrew all the charges on 27 July 2026. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Mantsha Robert Raphesu

The witness was Investigating Directorate Against Corruption investigator Mantsha Robert Raphesu, led by evidence leader Advocate Pooe - the second of the directorate's own officials in two days to give evidence against its former leadership, and the man whose recorded voice note had been played to the commission on Day 148 disputing the 'A1' statement. Raphesu told the commission he intends to open a criminal case against two of his own colleagues, IDAC chief investigator Dylan Perumal and senior investigator Brian Padayachee, alleging they targeted him after he objected to how the Crime Intelligence investigation was being run, and he asked the commission to intervene because he feared a complaint lodged through the normal channels could 'end up in the wrong hands'. He said that although he was the lead investigator on the Brigadier Dineo Mokwele matter, 'members of the team consulted witnesses in that matter without informing me and without my involvement', that he was removed from key investigations, subjected to disciplinary action and later barred from working on cases involving police officers and the security cluster. He produced a disciplinary letter dated 7 February 2025 from the office of then IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson accusing him of leaking confidential information, denied it, and volunteered to submit his cellphone for forensic examination and to take a polygraph test. He further testified that Johnson had put a false version of MP Fadiel Adams's section 27 referral before Parliament's ad hoc committee on police corruption, omitting the allegations that the Political Killings Task Team had misused Crime Intelligence's secret services account, and that state advocate Drushantha Ramsamy had told the investigating team she was under instruction not to give them documents. The week had already produced the sequence the commission is now working through in order: Johnson concluded six days of evidence on Day 150, Ramsamy testified against her on Day 151 and played a recorded call in which Johnson allegedly told her to leave the country rather than testify, and by Thursday evening the Justice Minister and the National Director of Public Prosecutions had suspended Perumal, Padayachee and investigator Suneel Bellochun and placed the whole directorate under a six-month reset. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy

The Madlanga Commission heard from Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy, a state advocate inside the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption and, until this week, one of Andrea Johnson's own prosecutors - and the case against the case turned into a case against the leadership. The centrepiece was a recording Ramsamy made of a telephone call with Johnson on 26 July, the day Johnson wrote to the National Director of Public Prosecutions asking to be released. Played in open session, it captured Johnson saying of the commission, 'It's going to be a shitshow', dismissing a legal point with 'this is Basic Law 101, I'm surprised you don't know it', and - on what Ramsamy should do if the commission summoned her - 'if they call you, leave the country'. Ramsamy testified that Johnson had been nicknamed 'Flip-Flop, Knee-Jerk' by IDAC staff because her instructions changed through the day after she consulted chief investigator Dylan Perumal, and that Johnson personally drove an investigation staff called 'Project Diversion' which targeted national commissioner General Fannie Masemola and Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo - an 'orchestrated attack', in Ramsamy's words, on the two police leaders. She said Johnson handed her a list of suspects written on a pinkish-purple sheet on 5 December 2024 with the words 'these are the suspects, Chief and I discussed who is to be included', and that when she later saw a document before the commission that differed from the section 27 affidavit Johnson had given her that same day, 'my heart dropped to my stomach'. She told the commission it was easy inside IDAC to manipulate statements and to decide who the suspects would be, how an investigation would run and what the witnesses would say. Away from the chamber the consequences landed the same day: Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi suspended Perumal, and NDPP Advocate Andy Mothibi suspended senior investigator Brian Padayachee and investigator Suneel Bellochun, all pending disciplinary processes; Kubayi and Mothibi gave IDAC six months to reform, with skills and lifestyle audits of all 212 employees due by 14 August. Ramsamy's evidence was part-heard and she was set down to resume the following Tuesday. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Advocate Andrea Johnson

Advocate Andrea Johnson concluded a sixth and final day in the Madlanga Commission's hot seat, and the day ended where the commission had been circling since her first appearance: her relationship with suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan. Commissioners put to her a set of WhatsApp exchanges submitted in evidence in which Khan greeted her as 'Hi gorgeous' and 'you gorgeous', the two spoke of missing one another, arranged dinners and discussed her visiting his home - messages the commission said showed a far closer and longer-running association than the 'very affable' acquaintance she had described on Day 144, when she said she had met him around a fiftieth birthday and had not been in contact for some eighteen months. Johnson accepted the relationship was 'very deep' and personal. The same day, chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga handed down the ruling he had reserved on Day 147: North West businessman Suleiman Carrim's application to postpone his part-heard evidence indefinitely was refused, and Carrim was directed to appear in person on 14 August 2026. Madlanga made one exception - 'Mr Carrim will be excused from appearing on the 14th of August 2026 only if he has voluntarily subjected himself to an independent evaluation by a medical specialist' - with the specialist to be nominated by the chairperson of the professional association in the relevant field of medicine and the examination agreed and completed by 3 August. It was Carrim's fifth postponement bid and the first the commission refused outright. Johnson's evidence also disclosed that senior IDAC investigator Suneel Bellochun had been served with a notice of intended suspension, following three separate complaints laid against him, among them allegations aired through a protected Political Killings Task Team witness known as Witness N that he had extorted money from undocumented traders. On the evidence that had emerged during her testimony, the commission's evidence leaders signalled that Johnson would be recalled to answer new allegations. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Advocate Andrea Johnson

Advocate Andrea Johnson returned to the Madlanga Commission for a fifth day - her first as the former head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, a day after her resignation took effect - and faced questions about whether the directorate had prosecuted selectively. Commissioner Advocate Sesi Baloyi SC asked why IDAC had not pursued allegations that Crime Intelligence funds were diverted to former police minister Bheki Cele, a matter she put squarely within the directorate's mandate; Johnson answered that she had received no briefing on it, and Baloyi replied that, 'on the extreme end, it speaks to selective investigations and prosecutions if this was overlooked'. Johnson undertook to check whether her former team had ever pursued the allegations. On the previous day's evidence that a statement attributed to MP Fadiel Adams had been fabricated, she said she had no knowledge of it and that no one had ever raised it with her, while accepting the chronology was implausible and deferring the detail to the investigators. She also struggled to account for IDAC's investigation into the Political Killings Task Team: she said she had no recall of ordering it and had only recently learned it existed, despite having signed a summons for task-team records and an April 2025 prosecution memorandum authorising it, and despite telling Parliament's ad hoc committee that IDAC was not investigating the task team; evidence leader Advocate Mahlape Sello SC pressed her, and Johnson said the memorandum 'related to the promotions, and that was all it related to'. The day's evidence further covered fraud and corruption charges arising from a Crime Intelligence forklift worth close to R1 million for which a supplier was paid but which was never delivered - a matter Johnson accepted looked more like a breach of contract than a crime. Her testimony was continuing when this entry was written; all allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Advocate Andrea Johnson

On the day President Cyril Ramaphosa accepted her immediate resignation, Advocate Andrea Johnson returned to the Madlanga Commission for a fourth day and the case her directorate built against Crime Intelligence came apart in public. The commission heard that two members of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption's own team - state advocate Drushantha Ramsamy and investigator Mantsha Raphesu, both on the docket, whose names outlets reported inconsistently at the time and which the record has since settled - had disputed, in recorded voice notes, the authenticity of a supplementary statement marked 'A1' that IDAC chief investigator Dylan Perumal later filed in court and before the commission as evidence from complainant MP Fadiel Adams. One asked why 'two investigating officers sitting in the same boardroom' would have taken different statements on the same day, confirming that only four statements were taken in her presence during the 6 January 2025 interview in Cape Town; the other said the A1 'could not have been possible because on that day we only obtained the supplementaries'. Johnson accepted the timeline did not hold - 'procedurally it does not make sense; you cannot have one team together, same day, same place' - Commissioner Advocate Sandile Khumalo SC said the material pointed to serious misconduct, and evidence leader Advocate Mahlape Sello SC asked whether the commission was 'confronted with a fraudulent Section 27'. Under questioning from Commissioner Advocate Sesi Baloyi SC, Johnson also conceded that IDAC investigators 'may well be conducting investigations of individuals that are not authorised', that the directorate was 'not supposed to solicit' complaints from the public, and that she had never personally verified Brigadier Dineo Mokwele's qualifications before charges were brought against her - 'I relied on the briefing from my team. I trusted them implicitly. I now see the facts I received then were incorrect' - withdrawing her earlier description of the appointment as a 'token appointment' and apologising to Mokwele. Chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga separately announced that the commission would institute criminal proceedings against a person who, on the face of it, deliberately disclosed the identity of a witness who had testified anonymously; he named neither. The same day, the National Prosecuting Authority confirmed that National Director of Public Prosecutions Advocate Andy Mothibi had signed a provisional withdrawal, before plea, of the corruption case against Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and his co-accused. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

The Madlanga Commission heard North West businessman Suleiman Carrim's latest application to postpone the continuation of his part-heard testimony, in open session after the chairperson rejected his bid to have the application itself heard in camera - news organisations had opposed a wholly private hearing, and Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga ruled it would proceed publicly on condition that the details of Carrim's medical condition were not disclosed. Carrim, who first testified on 9-10 March 2026 and has been declared unfit by his doctors at every scheduled return since a health scare in April, was said by the evidence leaders to be functioning day to day: evidence leader Advocate Adila Hassim SC put it to the commission that on 14 July he had spent a four-hour authorised excursion from his facility at a Durbanville mall in Cape Town's northern suburbs, entering a Woolworths store and a Kauai eatery, footage of which the commission had but did not screen publicly. His doctor's account described the outing as a chaperoned excursion between 1pm and 5pm, subject to strict authorisation and search protocols. Hassim SC went further, putting cellphone geolocation data to the commission which she said showed Carrim leaving the facility almost every single day and staying out for at least eight hours at a time, contradicting affidavits from his wife and his doctor about restricted movement, and asked the commission to order an independent medical assessment. Madlanga was openly sceptical that a date for the resumption of his evidence could be relied on - 'an educated guess would lead one to say we can't hold our breath' - and said the claim that only Carrim could supply the names of his companies' auditors, outstanding since March, was 'patently false'. The commission reserved its ruling, with 14 August 2026 flagged as a possible resumption date. Carrim is presumed innocent and the allegations against him remain untested.

Advocate Andrea Johnson

Advocate Andrea Johnson resumed a third day of testimony at the Madlanga Commission, giving evidence on the section 27 referral affidavit that led to the arrest of Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and six other officials. She addressed the involvement of senior investigator Suneel Bellochun in the Khumalo matter and testified that Khumalo's arrest was unrelated to the work of the Political Killings Task Team. The day continued the commission's scrutiny, over her three appearances, of whether IDAC had the mandate and the evidence to bring the Crime Intelligence prosecutions, and of the separate whistleblower allegation that Johnson shielded Major-General Feroz Khan in 2018. All allegations are untested; Johnson, Khumalo and Khan are presumed innocent.

Advocate Andrea Johnson

IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson returned for a second day at the Madlanga Commission, where evidence leader Advocate Mahlape Sello SC and the commissioners pressed her on whether the directorate had overreached in the Crime Intelligence case. Johnson conceded she had made an error in concluding that the corruption matter against Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo fell within IDAC's mandate, an admission over the legal test applied to a section 27 referral. She pushed back on the suggestion that IDAC had improperly 'solicited' an affidavit from National Coloured Congress MP Fadiel Adams - 'I don't agree with solicited; we're not supposed to solicit' - though it emerged that IDAC investigator Dylan Perumal had told Adams the directorate could not proceed without a specific affidavit from him; Adams's complaint helped trigger the 2025 arrests of seven Crime Intelligence officers, including Khumalo. Commissioner Advocate Sesi Baloyi SC put it to Johnson that IDAC had misused its power by taking intrusive steps against the officers too quickly and without a proper legislative basis, to which Johnson repeatedly answered 'no comment'. Proceedings adjourned about an hour early after Johnson said medication she was taking was having a debilitating effect. All allegations are untested; those named are presumed innocent.

Advocate Andrea Johnson

The head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), Advocate Andrea Johnson, finally took the stand at the Madlanga Commission after her July postponements, and used her first day to answer the whistleblower evidence against her while disclosing a death threat of her own. Johnson told the commission she received a threatening SMS in the days before Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo's arrest on 26 June 2025 - the first death threat of her prosecutorial career - which named her and colleagues and said 'get body bags ready'; it came from an unregistered SIM and the sender was never identified. She denied any political interference in the Khumalo case, said IDAC's investigations are 'driven by evidence, not politics' and predate her taking office, and rejected being part of an alleged 'Khan-IDAC cabal'. On the central allegation - that in 2018, as an NPA prosecutor, she caused Brigadier Leonora Phetlhe's assault-case docket to be leaked to Major-General Feroz Khan - Johnson said her 'memory needed jogging', described Khan as 'very affable' and acknowledged a past social acquaintance, including his 50th birthday, but said they had had no contact for about a year and a half after she distanced herself over allegations linking him to individuals connected to two murders. She confirmed the allegations against her and Khan sit in an NPA docket that will decide whether she is prosecuted, and invoked her constitutional right against self-incrimination on the Khan-related questions. All allegations are untested; Johnson and Khan are presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

The Madlanga Commission sat entirely behind closed doors as the anonymous businessman known only as 'Witness M' continued the in-camera testimony he began under the 8 July ruling that granted him a private hearing on safety grounds. Witness M is giving evidence on one of the major 2021 cocaine busts under investigation - the consignment routed from Durban that was later compromised - and his affidavit is understood to touch on politically exposed individuals, organised-crime families, drug syndicates and law-enforcement officers. Because the session was closed, no public evidence was heard; the commission indicated open hearings would resume the following day. Nothing said in camera is a finding, and anyone who may be named is presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

The Madlanga Commission turned back to the mishandling of a major drug seizure, hearing from KwaZulu-Natal-based Warrant Officer Mbongeleni Felix Mpangase - one of the officers on the June 2021 operation that recovered more than 540 kilograms of cocaine, with a street value put at about R200 million, concealed in a shipping container that had arrived at Durban port from Brazil and was intercepted at a depot in Isipingo. Mpangase came under sustained questioning from the commissioners, who accused him of making false or misleading entries in official records connected to the seizure and put it to him that the scene was not properly secured, that the cocaine was not stored in evidence bags and that the consignment was moved to a facility more than 100 kilometres away. He conceded he had no previous experience of large-scale container drug interceptions and that mistakes were made, but maintained he was following the instructions of his superiors and that there was no criminal intent on his part. The commission has heard that the cocaine was later stolen from a Hawks storage facility, amid allegations that officials may have colluded with drug traffickers - the same trafficking saga the in-camera 'Witness M' is testifying about. All allegations are untested and those named are presumed innocent.

Col Brian Padayachee

Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) investigator Brian Padayachee concluded a third day in the hot seat on the fraud and corruption case the directorate brought against Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and co-accused over the allegedly irregular appointment of Brigadier Dineo Mokwele - a former BMW employee holding a mechatronics-engineering diploma and an industrial-engineering degree - to a brigadier-level post running Crime Intelligence's Technical Support Services unit. IDAC's theory that the appointment was an 'attempt to capture Crime Intelligence' met sustained scepticism across the three days: chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga had called the reasoning a 'quantum leap in logic', noting that SAPS regularly appoints civilians with specialist expertise and that a lack of policing experience does not by itself point to criminal conduct, while Commissioner Advocate Sesi Baloyi SC put it that National Coloured Congress MP Fadiel Adams's founding affidavit contained no allegation of corruption and read more like a human-resources dispute than a crime. IOL reported Padayachee's evidence as amounting to Mokwele being arrested over conduct investigators believed she might commit in future - he could not say when the alleged offence would occur - and the commission noted the charge dated the alleged offence to October 2024 although Mokwele only signed her contract that December, her appointment taking effect on 1 November 2024. On this day the evidence leaders walked the documentary record showing how the complaint reached IDAC within weeks, and the Mail & Guardian reported the commission heard IDAC had charged Khumalo 'on sparse facts'. All allegations are untested; Khumalo, Mokwele and those named are presumed innocent.

Col Brian Padayachee

The Madlanga Commission postponed the testimony of alleged 'Big Five' cartel figure Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala to 1 September 2026 and ordered him to file his statement by 29 July, after his counsel Advocate Annelene van den Heever argued that his section 35 constitutional rights as a potential accused had to take precedence over the commission's timetable: she said the defence could not responsibly advise him to testify until it had seen the documents relating to his collapsed plea negotiations and understood the full criminal case against him. Chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga, visibly irritated, cut the argument short to focus on 'the broader question' of precedence. The commission then continued cross-examining Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) investigator Brian Padayachee on the fraud and corruption case against Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo, with counsel questioning whether the complaint by National Coloured Congress MP Fadiel Adams gave IDAC jurisdiction at all and calling it thin on substance; Madlanga said it was 'highly improbable' that Padayachee could have run the investigation without a copy of the main complaint. Padayachee again rejected MK Party MP Vusi Shongwe's claim of an 'Indian cabal' of Padayachee, IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson, senior investigator Suneel Bellochun and Major-General Feroz Khan, telling the commission: 'If such a cabal exists, I am not a party to it.' All allegations are untested; those named are presumed innocent.

Col Brian Padayachee

With IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson's testimony still postponed on medical grounds, senior Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) investigator Brian Padayachee took the stand at the Madlanga Commission to defend the directorate against claims that it is being weaponised in police infighting. Padayachee denied allegations - raised through Durban businessman Thoshan Panday - that he orchestrated unlawful telephone interceptions and covert surveillance for more than a decade by misusing interception orders, calling them 'baseless and devoid of merit' and insisting 'the IDAC has sufficient evidence to sustain the charges in the criminal case against Khumalo and other officials at Crime Intelligence'. He rejected the existence of a so-called 'Khan-IDAC cabal' (also put to him as an 'Indian cabal'), saying he had no knowledge of any such group, while confirming he knew suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan from their earlier work together in Crime Intelligence. Padayachee also pushed back on KwaZulu-Natal commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi's claims, testifying that Mkhwanazi knew of and had no issue with the arrest of Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo, whose fraud and corruption case he said arose from a complaint laid by National Coloured Congress MP Fadiel Adams. Under questioning he conceded he did not have Adams's original signed affidavit when the case began, relying on an oral briefing and receiving the sworn statement later, which chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga probed. Businessman Suleiman Carrim was separately reported to have been ruled medically unfit to testify again, days before a 15 July return date. All allegations are untested; those named are presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson was scheduled to testify before the Madlanga Commission to answer the whistleblower evidence that, as an NPA prosecutor in 2018, she caused an assault-case docket to be leaked to Major-General Feroz Khan, but her testimony was postponed after her counsel told the commission she had been rushed to hospital that morning with undisclosed health issues. Chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga dismissed her medical certificate as 'useless', saying such certificates 'give no information whatsoever', and no new date was set. Her no-show drew scrutiny from President Cyril Ramaphosa, who appointed her. With Johnson unavailable, no witness evidence was heard on the docket-leak allegations. All allegations are untested; those named are presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

Retired Hawks Colonel Kobus Roelofse - one of four police officers who testified this day - told the Madlanga Commission that the head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), Advocate Andrea Johnson, interfered in a 2018 assault investigation in which suspended SAPS Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan was the suspect. The evidence was that, as an NPA prosecutor, Johnson caused the contents of the police docket - arising from Brigadier Leonora Phetlhe's complaint that Khan assaulted her with a pen at Crime Intelligence headquarters on 26 June 2018 - to be emailed to a Crime Intelligence officer (who testified as a protected witness) on 4 July 2018, comprising 12 images and an audio file of the docket; the officer printed them and handed them to Khan before he had given his warning statement, which Roelofse said let Khan tailor his account. Hawks officer Mark McLean also testified that then National Director of Public Prosecutions Advocate Shamila Batohi allegedly blocked the Hawks' probe into Johnson. The commission ruled that two protected witnesses, 'Witness N' and 'Witness O', would give parts of their evidence in camera on safety grounds. All allegations are untested; Khan, Johnson and Batohi are presumed innocent and have not answered them before the commission.

Commission sitting

The Madlanga Commission returned to public hearings after the previous day's closed session for 'Witness M'. World Bank anti-corruption expert Dr Albertus Schoeman, a task-team leader on the World Bank's anti-corruption programme in Southern Africa, testified on structural weaknesses in the SAPS financial-disclosure and lifestyle-audit systems. He told the commission that no SAPS officials faced lifestyle investigations across the 2021/22 to 2023/24 years, that only five of 823 senior managers were audited in 2024/25 - all of whom were cleared - and that because disclosure forms exclude family members, assets can be hidden in relatives' names. The commission also confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa had extended its deadlines, with public evidence now to conclude by 2 October 2026 and the final report due by 16 November 2026. Nothing in the evidence is a finding; the systemic gaps described are matters for the commission's report.

Commission sitting

Chairperson retired Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga granted an unopposed application by an anonymous businessman, referred to only as 'Witness M', to testify entirely in camera, closing the commission's public hearings for several days. Witness M had asked for his evidence to be heard behind closed doors citing serious risks to his safety - surveillance vehicles outside his home, anonymous phone calls and a fear of being killed, saying he had moved his family - and the commission accepted the risk was real; media houses did not oppose the application. The evidence leaders indicated Witness M would speak to one of the major 2021 cocaine busts under investigation, and that his account touches on politically exposed individuals, organised-crime families, drug syndicates, terrorist organisations and law-enforcement officers. Madlanga said the commission could not say how long the closed session would run - 'At this stage, we have no idea by when it will be done; I can't announce that we will resume in open session' - and adjourned. No public evidence was heard. Nothing in the ruling is a finding; all matters remain untested and anyone who may be named is presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

The Madlanga Commission continued leading evidence against suspended SAPS Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan in his absence, with Khan still hospitalised after the 28 June shooting. Evidence leader Advocate Adila Hassim SC took the commission through Khan's alleged unexplained wealth: records that, she submitted, showed income of roughly two-and-a-half times his police salary from undisclosed sources, a car-parts business generating about R3 million a year, some 30 vehicles bought in a single year and a property portfolio estimated at about R39 million, alongside an allegation that Khan helped manipulate a tender to supply car parts to SAPS. Evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson SC then led WhatsApp messages from Khan's seized phone which he said show Khan and tobacco businessman Mohamed 'Mo' Sayed plotting to trap the then Inspector-General of Intelligence, Dr Setlhomamaru Dintwe, into a false statement so that his removal could be demanded - an 11-12 June 2021 exchange of prepared questions in which Khan allegedly wrote 'this should get him to lie, and in return we can ask for his removal coz he lied', with EFF leader Julius Malema referenced as having sent questions ('Juju sent me now'). Malema, who is not a commission witness, filed a responding affidavit that was read into the record, denying that he conspired to orchestrate Dintwe's removal and saying he could not verify the authenticity of the messages. The commission also confirmed it had asked the Presidency for more time, its interim and final reports then due by 31 August 2026 - a deadline President Ramaphosa extended to 16 November 2026 (with an evidence deadline of 2 October) on 9 July. All allegations are untested; Khan and Malema are presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

The Madlanga Commission continued leading evidence against suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan in his absence - one year to the day after Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi's 6 July 2025 press conference first aired the corruption allegations that led to the inquiry. Evidence leader Advocate Adila Hassim SC detailed what she called a pattern of financial beneficiation between Khan and businessman Mohamed 'Mo' Sayed spanning a 2021 SAPS personal-protective-equipment tender and a police IT contract. She told the commission Khan's financial-disclosure forms lurched from declaring zero vehicles in 2023 to a mixed luxury-and-vintage fleet of 30 cars in 2024, with no explanatory comments, submitting that he had lived far beyond a police salary. Hassim also asked investigators to probe Khan's possible involvement in the March 2021 burglary at the home of Daily Maverick journalist Marianne Thamm - both her laptops were stolen two months after she reported on SAPS Covid-19 PPE corruption - citing a WhatsApp message in which Khan said 'a counter should be activated on the journalist': 'You can't conclusively show it was linked to the WhatsApp exchange, but the sequence is alarming, and I raise it because it requires further investigation.' She said the record showed 'a pattern of abusing Crime Intelligence resources for his own personal gains'. All allegations are untested; Khan is presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

With suspended SAPS Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan still hospitalised after the 28 June shooting and unable to appear, the Madlanga Commission began leading evidence against him in his absence. Evidence leader Advocate Adila Hassim SC took the commission through WhatsApp chats extracted from Khan's phone - seized around 10 May 2026 when he was arrested - which she said show Khan acting as a 'willing facilitator' of government tenders for tobacco businessman Mohamed 'Mo' Sayed. The messages, dated through 2021, include a 12 January exchange in which Sayed asked how to secure a SAPS face-mask contract and Khan told him to send prices and samples; a 5 June message asking Khan to check contract detail from 'Fanie' - suspended SAPS supply-chain divisional commissioner Molefe Fani, who also acted as head of procurement at National Treasury; and 7 July voice notes about Covid-19 test-kit volumes. Hassim submitted that 'at no point did Khan attempt to reject the arrangement', and pointed to a related IT contract between Treasury and a private company allegedly facilitated by Khan and Fani. All allegations are untested; Khan, Sayed and Fani are presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

The Madlanga Commission abruptly postponed the testimony of businessman Itumeleng 'Tumelo' Nku indefinitely, citing security concerns. Nku, who was due to conclude his evidence on the 2021 Aeroton cocaine bust, was present when chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga announced the halt: 'There are security concerns about Nku. We cannot hear his testimony at this stage. The hearing of his testimony is postponed indefinitely,' adding that an announcement would follow on when and under what circumstances he would return. The commission separately confirmed it had subpoenaed alleged 'Big Five' cartel figure Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala - described by spokesperson Jeremy Michaels as a 'central figure' in its investigation and currently held at Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre in Pretoria - to appear on Tuesday 7 July 2026. It is understood Matlala agreed to testify on condition he would not be cross-examined on aspects of the R360 million SAPS Medicare24 tender, his legal team arguing that questioning on it could affect his ongoing legal proceedings. All allegations remain untested and those named are presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

Suspended SAPS Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan, summoned to begin his testimony before the Madlanga Commission, could not appear: he remained in a critical condition at Milpark Hospital after being shot in an apparent assassination attempt outside his Houghton home on Sunday 28 June 2026. His legal team instead argued an application - filed at 11:04pm on the night of the shooting - for parts of his evidence to be heard in camera, citing intelligence-sensitive information. Chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga rejected it as fatally vague, saying 'We are completely in the dark. It is vague; I could go further and say it is hopeless,' and that nothing stopped the commission dismissing it on vagueness alone; counsel Advocate Zubair Khan conceded it was not ready and withdrew it, undertaking to refile once his client could give instructions. The commission also rebuked Khan's team for accusing the inquiry of leaks. The lawyers said Khan was sedated and unable to speak, invited the commissioners to verify his condition in hospital, and submitted a J88 medical report and photographs to counter speculation that the shooting was staged. The commission said it would engage Khan's lawyers on the way forward. All allegations remain untested; Khan is presumed innocent.

Vusi Shongwe

MK Party Member of Parliament Vusi Shongwe testified before the Madlanga Commission that, as he pressed for suspended SAPS Crime Intelligence boss Major-General Feroz Khan to account before Parliament's ad hoc committee on policing, Khan and his alleged associates tried to buy his silence with a R10 million bribe. Shongwe said that on 8 March 2026 men he identified as Khan's associates, Yusuf Kajee and a man known only as Imran, arranged a video call from a Durban security firm, dRK Tactical, at which a tearful Khan said 'you are suffocating me' and asked why he was after him. He testified he was offered a choice of a R2 million Checkers security tender or R10 million in cash, plus two bulletproof BMWs with tinted windows, to be handed over in Sandton on 10 March - which he declined, reporting it to former president Jacob Zuma and then to the committee and the commission. Shongwe also told the commission that EFF leader Julius Malema was the most vocal in opposing Khan being called to testify before the ad hoc committee. All allegations are untested; Khan and Malema are presumed innocent and have not answered the claims before the commission.

Itumeleng 'Tumelo' Nku

Businessman Itumeleng 'Tumelo' Nku resumed his testimony on the 2021 Aeroton cocaine bust with a substantially changed account after a weekend postponement to file a supplementary statement. He told the commission a 'hard chat' with his spiritual leader, who urged him to be honest, had prompted his return, and now described the operation as part of a 'broader business scheme': he said former deputy defence minister Kebby Maphatsoe, a 'distant relative', had introduced him in 2021 to a man known as 'Alpha', and that arranging the roughly R300 million bust had actually prevented a turf war by stopping the consignment reaching a rival trafficker. He also suggested Gauteng traffic chief Samuel Mashaba may have wanted to 'take' the cocaine. Chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga expressed frustration that, even with the extra time, Nku had still not 'come clean'. Forensic investigator Paul O'Sullivan was also at the commission to testify as it wrapped up the Aeroton drug-bust probe. All allegations are untested; everyone named is presumed innocent.

Itumeleng 'Tumelo' Nku

Tumelo Nku continued his testimony before the Madlanga Commission, describing himself as a consultant proficient in data analysis, 'ethical hacking', consignment and inventory management, and cyber-penetration testing, and saying he had consulted for and been paid by foreign intelligence agencies. He told the commission he was 'still building rapport with law enforcement agencies'. His testimony was then postponed to Monday, 29 June 2026, after a request for time to prepare a supplementary statement. All allegations are untested; Nku is presumed innocent.

Itumeleng 'Tumelo' Nku

Businessman Itumeleng 'Tumelo' Nku began his long-delayed testimony before the Madlanga Commission on his role at the 2021 Aeroton drug bust (the roughly R286 million cocaine consignment). He was grilled over why he was at the scene with about R60,000-R65,000 in cash, which he said was money for an unplanned trip, and maintained he was an unregistered, unpaid police informer rather than a participant. He testified that he had told a senior officer, the late Lieutenant-General Mfazi, about the consignment via a secure messaging app. A Hawks analyst testifying as 'Witness J' had told the commission that records pointed to Nku being part of the trafficking network, 'a drug trafficker, not an informer'. All allegations are untested; Nku is presumed innocent.

Julius Mkhwanazi

Suspended Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi returned to the Madlanga Commission to answer the previous day's evidence from 'Witness K', the anonymous JMPD inspector who said he masterminded the alleged R14.9 million Killarney precious-stones theft. Mkhwanazi requested time to consult his legal team and declined to respond to the precious-stones claims, saying he had been preparing for his disciplinary hearing and had not studied her transcripts. He insisted the Killarney operation was a legitimate joint EMPD/JMPD seizure rather than a theft. The commission challenged a contradiction: he had denied knowing Witness K in his 15 April 2026 testimony but now confirmed he knows her, prompting Commissioner Sandile Khumalo to put it to him that he was either untruthful then or untruthful now. All allegations are untested; he denies wrongdoing and is presumed innocent.

Witness K

An inspector in the Johannesburg Metro Police Department's VIP Protection Unit testified before the Madlanga Commission as 'Witness K', in camera - her voice broadcast publicly but her name and image withheld for her safety after she said she feared for her life. She told the commission she had been in a romantic relationship with suspended Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi and came forward to admit her own role in an alleged theft of precious sugilite stones worth about R14.9 million from a flat in Killarney, Johannesburg on 11 February 2023. She testified that Mkhwanazi assembled a team after she passed on an informer's tip, that EMPD officers Kershia-Leigh Stols and Aiden McKenzie and a civilian, Andy van der Walt, took the stones under a falsified SAPS seizure form to make it look like a lawful police operation, and that the stones were sold for only about R110,000, with each participant receiving roughly R22,000. All allegations are untested; everyone named is presumed innocent.

Commission sitting

Medicare24 Holdings chief executive Michael 'Mike' van Wyk was subpoenaed to appear before the Madlanga Commission but did not testify: his attorney Sandy du Plessis said he had suffered severe panic attacks and was being admitted for psychiatric care, and the commission accepted his medical affidavit and postponed his appearance. To avoid losing the day, chief evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson SC led the documentary evidence in his absence - WhatsApp chats, voice notes and videos between van Wyk, attempted-murder-accused tenderpreneur Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala and suspended EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi. The evidence leaders submitted that a 6 April 2025 exchange ('get me a good price' / 'we'll go in at 250') over a video of 'Prestige'-branded one-kilogram bricks - forensically matched to blocks that tested positive for cocaine - points to an alleged drug deal, and that earlier chats show van Wyk seeking blue and red lights, EMPD branding, a memorandum of understanding and 'appointment cards' for a private specialised unit, alongside an exchange they read as a possible bribe. Van Wyk denies receiving the cocaine video and may file a supplementary affidavit by 6 July 2026. All allegations are untested; he is presumed innocent.

Maj-Gen Lesetja Senona

Suspended KZN Hawks provincial head Major General Lesetja Senona returned to the Madlanga Commission for a second round of evidence on the R200m Port Shepstone cocaine theft (~541kg, seized June 2021). Now represented by Advocate Dali Mpofu SC, Senona opened by accusing the commission of unfair treatment - Mpofu complained of a 'serial refusal' to share requested transcripts and questioned the cost and burden of recalling him over ground covered in his three-day January appearance. Under questioning by evidence leader Advocate Mahlape Sello SC, Senona said no security threats at the Port Shepstone office were ever reported to him, raised fears for his and his family's safety, and said he had been removed from his office 'like a dog' and hospitalised for two weeks. He disputed earlier testimony that he had subjected a junior officer to a polygraph over a stolen coffee machine. All allegations are untested.

Commission sitting

The hearings continued to probe the Aeroton cocaine bust scandal. But Mr Nku as a testifier asked for postponement to a date still to be agreed.

Brig. Campbell Nyuswa

Brigadier Campel Msizi Nyuswa was under scrutiny. His testimony revolved around his role in the handling of seized narcotics and his interactions with General Senona.

Samuel Mashaba

The inquiry heard testimony from senior police officials about failures in narcotics enforcement.

Samuel Mashaba

Traffic Chief Mashaba testified about a major drug bust, while commissioners lightened the mood by donning Bafana Bafana jerseys ahead of South Africa’s World Cup opener against Mexico.

Samuel Mashaba & Witness I

The hearings continued at the Brigitte Mabandla Judicial College in Pretoria, focusing on explosive testimony from “Witness I” after a lengthy private consultation.

Zelda Maphosho & Witness I

Assistant Director Zelda Mapholo was questioned about how IPID handled corruption allegations within the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD).

Lt-Col Nkoana Joseph Sebola & Zelda Maphosho

Colonel Nkwana Joseph Sebole was questioned in relation to drug trafficking operations and irregular policing practices at Durban’s ports (Pier 1 and Pier 2).

Lt-Col Kwazikwakhe Sibiya

Col Gavin Jacob

The focus shifted from Colonel David Jacob’s initial account of corruption in drug investigations (Day 112) to how internal disciplinary mechanisms were weaponized against whistleblowers.

Col Gavin Jacob

Colonel David Jacob was testifying about corruption and misconduct within the Hawks. His evidence focused on irregularities in drug‑related investigations, including how senior officers manipulated outcomes and targeted whistleblowers.

W/O Karl Sander

Warrant Officer Karl Sander’s was there to show how intimidation tactics like the polygraph were part of a broader retaliation against honest officers.

W/O Karl Sander

General Senona appeared before the Madlanga Commission. His testimony centered on the controversial decision to subject Warrant Officer Karl Sander to a polygraph test over the alleged theft of a coffee machine.

Oupa 'Brown' Mogotsi

the spotlight was again on Brown Mogotsi. His testimony was tense and confrontational: he repeatedly refused to answer questions posed by Advocate Matthew Chaskalson and the commissioners.

Lt-Col Nkoana Joseph Sebola

Colonel Nkwana Joseph Sebole was testifying about his role in the Aeroton drug bust scandal.

Commission sitting

Warrant Officer Boy Steve Phakula was under intense scrutiny as he gave evidence about his role in the Aeroton cocaine bust scandal.

W/O Marumo Magane

Warrant Officer Makgane was testifying about his alleged involvement in the Aeroton cocaine bust scandal.

Commission sitting

Advocate Adila Hassim SC was again in her role as evidence leader, guiding the testimony of Colonel Francois Steyn.

Commission sitting

The Madlanga Commission sat in camera to hear the protected witness known as 'Witness H', continuing a closed-session strand that the commission had provided for in its 5 May Rule 4 notice and 7 May ruling on the Witness H in-camera hearing. Because the session was held behind closed doors on safety grounds, no public evidence was led and no broadcast was made; the commission issued a media statement the same day recording the in-camera remarks. This was among the last sitting days before the commission broke from 18 May 2026 to prepare its second interim report, delivered to President Cyril Ramaphosa on 29 May 2026. Nothing heard in camera is a finding, and anyone who may be named is presumed innocent.

Lt-Col Jakobus Prinsloo

Retired Colonel Jakobus Prinsloo was testifying about the Hawks’ failure to secure their Port Shepstone offices before the disappearance of R200 million worth of cocaine.

Commission sitting

The commission continued with Hawks Major-General Hendrik Flynn. As he continued to testify about corruption and misconduct within the police service, particularly involving senior officers.

Commission sitting

The Commission continued to wrestle with how much testimony should be public, especially when sensitive intelligence or political connections are involved. Hawks Major-General Hendrik Flynn was part of the witnesses.

Commission sitting

Madlanga Commission was marked by technical disruptions, closed-door testimony, and the appearance of Witness G.

Commission sitting

The commission was dominated by the testimony of suspended Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) Director Tshukudu Malatji.

Commission sitting

The Madlanga Commission continued to hear testimony from Chief Umashi Dhlamini, extending the inquiry’s focus on systemic corruption and political pressure within policing structures.

Commission sitting

Madlanga Commission heard testimony from suspended Tshwane Metropolitan Police Deputy Chief Umashi Dhlamini, who was grilled over allegations of tender rigging and political interference.

Commission sitting

The commission focused on testimony around alleged criminality and political interference in Sedibeng, Gauteng. Major Lebogang Andrew Phiri’s testimony drew attention.

Commission sitting

Madlanga Commission focused on high‑stakes testimony and cross‑examination. And they had Mbangwa Abraham Nkhwashu as the testifier.

Commission sitting

Suspended Tshwane CFO Gareth Mnisi remained in the hot seat, facing relentless cross‑examination. Commissioners pressed him on WhatsApp exchanges with Sgt. Fannie Nkosi.

Commission sitting

The Madlanga Commission, suspended Tshwane CFO Gareth Mnisi was grilled over WhatsApp exchanges with Sgt. Fannie Nkosi.

Commission sitting

The suspended officials testified about political interference in policing and tender processes. The testifier was Gareth Mandisi Trevor Mnisi.

Julius Mkhwanazi

The Madlanga Commission aimed to Scrutinize EMPD Commissioner Julius Mkhwanazi’s testimony for contradictions, especially around the “blue lights” scandal.

Julius Mkhwanazi

The Commission delivered a set of key recommendations aimed at reforming the criminal justice system. With suspended Ekurhuleni Metro Police Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi resuming his testimony.

Julius Mkhwanazi

The commission focused on Integrity of procurement systems within metropolitan governance. Witness : Julius Mkhwanazi, suspended Deputy Chief of the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD).

Commission sitting

The commission is continuing with the focus on corruption and political interference in policing. Deputy chief Umashi Dlamini was the main testifier.

Commission sitting

The commission is continuing with investigating allegations of corruption, political interference, and organised crime within South Africa's criminal justice system. Mr Malatji was testifying.

Commission sitting

The commission is focusing on corruption and political interference in policing. Tshwane Metro Police Chief Yolande Faro continued as the headline witness.

Commission sitting

The commission is focusing on corruption and political interference in policing. The headline witness was Tshwane Metro Police Chief Yolande Faro.

Commission sitting

day 84, 24 March 2026. Commissioner Spiece was active in guiding the proceedings. He pressed witnesses for clarity on how oversight mechanisms failed, especially around compliance and financial controls.

Commission sitting

The commission is continuing with investigating allegations of criminality, political interference, and corruption in the criminal justice system. the proceedings focused on testimony from Sergeant Nkosi.

Commission sitting

The Commission continues probing criminality, political interference, and corruption in the criminal justice system. Testimony centered on Sergeant Fannie Nkosi.

Commission sitting

The Commission is moving deeper into allegations involving senior police and political figures, with mounting pressure for accountability. Sergeant Fannie Nkosi continued to testify.

Commission sitting

Madlanga Commission revealed how deeply SAPS intelligence channels may have been compromised by criminal syndicates. Sergeant Fannie Nkosi was the main witness.

Commission sitting

Commission sitting

The Commission continue to hear testimony by a Gauteng organised crimes unit member Sgt Fannie Nkosi (Witness F).

Major-Gen Richard Shibiri

The Commission continue to hear testimony by the Suspended Organised Crime Unit Head Major-General Richard Shibiri [Day 04]. Application to hear testimony of Witness G in camera.

Major-Gen Richard Shibiri

The Commission continues its hearings into criminality, political interference, and corruption in the criminal justice system. General Shibiri remained a central figure, with his testimony under scrutiny.

Major-Gen Richard Shibiri

General Shibiri questioned about his ties to Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala, including loans and alleged facilitation of payments.

Suleiman Carrim

Madlanga Commission focused on the testimony of businessman Suleiman Carrim, which revealed possible money laundering links involving Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala and Hangwani Maumela. Evidence leaders expressed frustration, saying Carrim’s testimony raised more questions than answers.

Suleiman Carrim

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Ms. Sharmilla Williams was continuing her testimony about corruption and political interference in the justice system.

Major-Gen Richard Shibiri

Major General Shibiri faced questioning about money he received from Cat Matlala, claiming he paid it back.

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Following Linda Gxasheka’s testimony (suspended HR Head),

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Day 69, 27 February 2026, the commission continued hearing evidence from Linda Gxasheka, the suspended Head of Human Resources for Ekurhuleni

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Proceedings faced an early complication as the scheduled new witness reportedly took ill shortly after the session began.

Lieutenant-Gen Shadrack Sibiya

Lieutenant-Gen Shadrack Sibiya

Madlanga Commission Day 65, Monday, 23 February 2026: Former Deputy Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya Testifies on Alleged Criminal Ties

Lieutenant-Gen Shadrack Sibiya

Friday, 20 February 2026, is Day 64 of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. The primary witness is Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya, the suspended SAPS Deputy National Commissioner of Crime Detection. Today marks his third day on the stand.

Lieutenant-Gen Shadrack Sibiya

Day 63 Wednesday, 18 February 2026, suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya is appearing before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry

Lieutenant-Gen Shadrack Sibiya

This marks the beginning of his scheduled four-day testimony.

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry is currently in Day 60 of its public hearings today, Friday, 13 February 2026 and the witness on stand is Thulani Magagula, an Assistant Director at the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry continued its 59th day of public hearings today, 12 February 2026, with primary witness Nomsa Masuku, a Senior Investigator from the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry continues its public hearings today, 10 February 2026, focusing on testimony related to alleged corruption within the City of Ekurhuleni. The commission is currently in Day 57 of its proceedings as Advocate Kemi Behari testifies.

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On Day 56 of the Madlanga Commission (Monday, 9 February 2026), Advocate Khemraj "Kemi" Behari: The suspended Head of Legal and Risk Services for the City of Ekurhuleni took the stand.

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Day 55 of the Madlanga Commission (Friday, 6 February 2026), the following individuals were the primary focus of the proceedings: Brigadier Rachel Matjeng and Witness F

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Thursday, 5 February 2026, the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry reached Day 54 of its public hearings with Brigadier Rachel Matjeng, a senior SAPS official.

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Today, Wednesday, 4 February 2026, the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry continued its hearings in Pretoria, focusing on the cross-examination of an unnamed witness known as Witness F.

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On Tuesday, 3 February 2026, the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry heard evidence from a highly anticipated witness identified as "Witness F", proceedings reach day 52

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On Monday, 2 February 2026, Captain Laurance Makgotloe testified before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as it entered Day 51 of its proceedings in Pretoria.

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The witness on the stand today is Hartley Ngoato, Madlanga Commission of Inquiry Day 50

Maj-Gen Lesetja Senona

Major-General Lesetja Senona will continue testifying at the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria this morning, proceeding to day 49.

Maj-Gen Lesetja Senona

Major-General Lesetja Senona will continue testifying at the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria this morning, proceeding to day 48.

Maj-Gen Lesetja Senona

The witness on the stand today is Major-General Lesetja Senona, Day 47 of Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality,

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Madlanga Commission of Inquiry Day 46

Senzo Mchunu

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu will continue testifying at the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria this morning, proceeding to day 45.

Senzo Mchunu & Julius Mkhwanazi

Suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi and suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu are providing testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, now on its 44th day.

Julius Mkhwanazi

Suspended EMPD Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi testifies before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 43.

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Dr. Imogen Mashazi, Former City of Ekurhuleni manager continues to present his testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 42

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The witness on the stand today is Dr. Imogen Mashazi, Former City of Ekurhuleni manager as the proceedings reach day 41.

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Hilda Sinthumule appears before the commission proceedings reach day 40.

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Today's witness was to be General Senona. General Senona and his legal team have raised objections in relation to the documents that they have been provided for and their readiness to proceed today.

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The Madlanga Commission in Pretoria continues to probe witnesses

Oupa 'Brown' Mogotsi

Businessman Brown Mogotsi continues to present his testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 37.

Oupa 'Brown' Mogotsi

Businessman Mr Brown Mogotsi continues to present his testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 36.

Oupa 'Brown' Mogotsi

North West businessman, Brown Mogotsi takes the stand at the Madlanga Commission of inquiry on Tuesday 18 November 2025.

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Mdluli Motsepe presents her testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 34.

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EMPD spokesperson Kelebogile Thepa presents her testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 33.

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Former divisional head employee Xolani Nciza continues to appear before the commission, proceedings reach day 32.

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Former divisional head employee Xolani Nciza presents his testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 31.

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EMPD Chief Isaac Mapiyeye continue to present his testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 28.

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EMPD Chief Isaac Mapiyeye presents his testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 27.

Lieutenant-Gen Dumisani Khumalo

General Dumisani Khumalo continue to appear before the commission after being unable to continue his testimony last month due to illness, proceedings reach day 26.

Lieutenant-Gen Dumisani Khumalo

General Dumisani Khumalo appeared before the commission earlier Tuesday after being unable to continue his testimony last month due to illness, proceedings reach day 25.

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Chief Inspector George Raftopoulos of the Gauteng Traffic Police testified at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 24.

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Madlanga Commission of Inquiry | 23 Day | Wednesday, 30 October 2025

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Madlanga commission inquiry Day 22.

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Captain Modisane and Captain Mkhatshwa present their testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as the proceedings reach day 21.

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry will today go into day 20 of hearings with ballistic expert Mishack Mkhabela

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Madlanga commission inquiry Day 19

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system will today go into day 18 of hearings

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Madlanga Commission of Inquiry | Day 17| Wednesday, 22 October 2025

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system will today go into its sixth day of hearings with a new Witness A and B on the stand.

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry will today go into day 15 of hearings with a new Witness A on the stand.

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system will today go into its sixth day of hearings with a new witness ICB on the stand.

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry resumes in Pretoria Day 13 with Witness ICB.

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Witness X shares their testimony to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry...

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry resumes its public hearings on day 11 with witness X. The Commission did not sit on Wednesday, after Crime Intelligence Head, Dumisani Khumalo, fell ill...

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system will today go...

Lieutenant-Gen Dumisani Khumalo

The inquiry seeks to get to the bottom of corruption and malfeasance claims that KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi made in July about the criminal justice system.

Lieutenant-Gen Dumisani Khumalo

Lieutenant General Khumalo shares his testimony to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, detailing how the drug cartel has infiltrated the police force...

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption in...

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The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption in...

Lieutenant-Gen Fannie Masemola

Lieutenant General MASEMOLA appear before the commission proceedings reach day 5.

Lieutenant-Gen Fannie Masemola

Lieutenant General MASEMOLA appear before the commission proceedings reach day 4.

Lieutenant-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi

KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is expected to lead day three of the Madlanga Commission

Lieutenant-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi

KZN Police Commissioner, Lt-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has painted a grim picture of elaborate efforts to...

Lieutenant-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi

The first hearing covers opening statements and initial submissions by parties involved.