Hearing record
Day 133
Day 133, 6 July 2026. 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.
