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Madlanga Commission schedule
When and where the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry sits, how many days it has heard, the latest sitting dates, and how to follow each day without the 8-to-10-hour live feed.
How it sits
When and where the Commission sits
The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry sits in Pretoria, at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College, where retired Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga and the commissioners receive evidence led by the evidence leaders. Hearing days run on weekdays during each block, typically eight to ten hours, with tea and lunch adjournments.
172 sitting days are recorded here so far. The most recent is Day 172 on 2 Sep 2026. Exact upcoming dates are set and announced by the Commission; this page updates as new days are added.
Inside a sitting
How a Madlanga Commission hearing day runs
A typical hearing day opens with the chairperson confirming the day’s witness, who takes the oath. An evidence leader then takes the witness through a sworn statement paragraph by paragraph, putting the supporting exhibits - cellphone downloads, bank records, official documents - on screen as they go.
The commissioners interject with their own questions throughout, and proceedings break for tea mid-morning and for lunch around 13:00 before resuming into the afternoon. A full day can run eight to ten hours, and where a witness is not finished their evidence carries over to the next sitting day - which is why following the latest updates day to day matters.
Latest sittings
Recent Madlanga Commission hearing days
Madlanga Commission - Day 172
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.
Madlanga Commission - Day 171
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.
Madlanga Commission - Day 170
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.
Madlanga Commission - Day 169
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.
Madlanga Commission - Day 168
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.
Madlanga Commission - Day 167
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.
Madlanga Commission - Day 166
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.
Madlanga Commission - Day 165
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.
Madlanga Commission - Day 164
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.
Madlanga Commission - Day 163
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.
Questions
Madlanga Commission schedule: common questions
When does the Madlanga Commission sit?
The Madlanga Commission sits on weekdays during its hearing blocks, usually from mid-morning with a tea and lunch adjournment, often running eight to ten hours. The latest recorded sitting was Day 172 on 2 Sep 2026. Exact upcoming dates are set by the Commission and announced on its official roll.
Where is the Madlanga Commission held?
Hearings are held in Pretoria, at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College, where the Chairperson and commissioners receive evidence.
How many days has the Madlanga Commission sat?
172 hearing days are recorded in this archive so far, the most recent being Day 172 (2 Sep 2026).
Can I follow the Madlanga Commission live or today?
Yes. This archive turns each day's testimony into a readable record. See who is on the stand now on the home page, the newest hearing days and documents on the Latest page, and the full day-by-day chronicle under Hearings.
Covering 13 months of hearings, this is part of The Madlanga Commission public-record archive - follow the latest day, the case files, and the witnesses.