Hearing record
Day 38
The commission's Pretoria hearings continued through a mid-week sitting on 25 November 2025, keeping the focus on the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team and the broader questions of political interference in policing that have anchored this leg of testimony.
The day in brief
What you need to know
- Day 38 was a working continuation of the commission's late-November run, sitting at the Bridget Mabandla Justice College in Centurion.
- The published record frames the day as further probing of witnesses rather than a single headline appearance, keeping the PKTT disbandment thread live.
- It sat between Brown Mogotsi's 20 November appearance and the disclosure standoff with Maj-Gen Lesetja Senona that surfaced the next day.
- The sitting fed directly into the acting deputy national commissioner's evidence on the task team's disbandment two days later.
- As with every hearing day, the official transcript-record PDF is the authoritative account of what was said.
- All persons referenced in this leg are presumed innocent unless and until convicted by a competent court.
Full coverage
The day, in depth
A continuation sitting in a busy week
The commission used 25 November to press on with witness testimony as its inquiry into political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system moved deeper into its second phase. The day formed part of an unusually dense stretch of hearings that also produced Brown Mogotsi's evidence earlier in the week and a procedural clash with a senior Hawks officer soon after.
Where the day sits in the record
The archive's own hearing record describes the sitting in general terms, noting that the commission continued to probe witnesses. Readers seeking the verbatim exchanges should consult the official transcript PDF for the day, which the commission publishes to its open uploads directory.
Our analysis
The bottom line
Not every hearing day yields a marquee witness, and Day 38 reads as one of the connective sittings that hold a long inquiry together. Its value is cumulative: it keeps pressure on the same questions about who disbanded the Political Killings Task Team, on whose authority, and with what consequence for open investigations.
For a reader trying to follow the arc rather than a single dramatic moment, the honest framing is that this day advanced the record without producing a defining headline of its own. That is worth stating plainly rather than inflating, and it is why the surrounding days, from Mogotsi's testimony to the Senona disclosure fight, carry the sharper detail.
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.
In the room & on the record
Counsel, the panel and sources
On the panel
- Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga (chairperson)