Day 115

Sebola's evidence is among the more concrete interference allegations the inquiry has heard, because it pairs a named chain of alleged pressure - a call for an 'amicable solution', disputed command of the scene - with a claim of corroborating digital evidence in intercepted messages and phone downloads. If that material exists and holds up, it moves the Aeroton story from he-said contestation toward something documentary. But that is precisely the test still ahead: the commission has heard the investigator's characterisation of the messages, not the messages themselves subjected to scrutiny, and an investigator recounting his own conduct has an obvious interest in casting it favourably.

The fairness caveat is significant. Khan and Kadwa are the subjects of serious allegations they have not yet had the chance to answer, and the inquiry itself has scheduled Khan's evidence for July - an implicit acknowledgement that Day 115 is one side of a contested account. The presumption of innocence applies squarely to every officer Sebola named. What the day usefully established is the shape of the dispute - command, the 'amicable' approach, and the alleged cartel link to the Durban consignment - and a clear list of questions that only the accused officers' own testimony, and the underlying data, can resolve.

Analysis is the archive’s own comment on the public proceedings, grounded in the record above. It weighs the evidence and the process; questions of individual guilt are for the courts and the commission to decide. Everyone named is presumed innocent.