Former political adviser to President Cyril Ramaphosa; member of the ANC national executive committee · Gauteng
Asked to account under Regulation 10(6) · has not testified
Dr Bejani Chauke advised President Cyril Ramaphosa politically and sits on the ANC's national executive committee. He has given no evidence to this commission. He entered this archive on 27 October 2026, when per the Mail and Guardian, eNCA and IOL the commission issued him a notice requiring him to account for his relationship and his WhatsApp exchanges with the late Mpumalanga taxi boss Jotham 'King Mswazi' Msibi, exchanges the reporting dates to 2022 and 2023, when he was serving as the President's adviser. The outlets call it a Rule 10.6 notice. The instrument is Regulation 10(6) of the regulations applicable to this commission, the provision the commission itself invoked in its statement of 16 October 2026 when it said Suleiman Carrim 'had also continuously failed to provide the Commission with information and documentation required under Regulation 10(6)'. It is a demand for information and documents, nothing more. It is not a summons to give evidence, it is not a charge, and it is not an allegation by this commission that Dr Chauke did anything wrong. Per eNCA his lawyers have about ten days and are expected to respond by Friday, and he is consulting them; the commission has published no statement and no document about the notice, and the reporting rests on unnamed sources. The body of material the notice arises from is already on this record. Msibi's cellphone has been one of the richest single sources of evidence before this inquiry since 18 August 2026, when Day 161 sat with no live witness and chief evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson SC spent the whole day leading messages, photographs and video extracted from it. Dr Chauke was not named in that evidence. What the press now reports about the contents of his own messages is media characterisation of leaked material, and this archive does not restate it as fact or attach it to him. The one thing about him already on the public hearing record is secondhand and was told by someone else: per SABC News, former Hawks head Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya testified that the forensic investigator Paul O'Sullivan approached him for an update on the Phala Phala investigation while it was classified, that he refused, and that O'Sullivan indicated he was sitting with Dr Chauke and called him a friend. That is one witness's untested impression of a conversation. Dr Chauke has not answered it before this commission, nothing has been put to him at a hearing, he has made no public statement this archive has found, he has not been accused of an offence by anyone, and he is presumed innocent. Msibi is dead and can answer nothing said about him.
This profile summarises testimony and evidence given on the public record before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. It restates allegations as presented at the hearings and is not a finding of guilt, liability, or wrongdoing by any person.
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Asked to account for his messages with Jotham Msibi (27 October 2026)
Per the Mail and Guardian, eNCA and IOL the commission issued Dr Chauke a notice on Tuesday 27 October 2026 requiring him to explain his relationship and his WhatsApp exchanges with the late taxi boss Jotham 'King Mswazi' Msibi, which the reporting dates to 2022 and 2023. Per eNCA his lawyers were given about ten days and are expected to respond by Friday. The commission has published nothing about it. A Regulation 10(6) notice compels the production of information and documents; it is not a summons to testify, not a charge, and not a finding or an allegation of wrongdoing by the commission. Dr Chauke has not answered publicly and is presumed innocent.
Named secondhand in Lebeya's evidence about a Phala Phala approach
Per SABC News, former Hawks head Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya told the commission that the forensic investigator Paul O'Sullivan approached him seeking an update on the Phala Phala investigation while the matter was classified, and that he refused: 'I can't report to any other person about the progress of matters in the DPCI.' He said O'Sullivan indicated he was sitting with Dr Chauke and referred to him as a friend, and his own reading was cautious: 'I just felt somebody else was asking me to provide him with the status of the matter.' That is a third party's reported statement, relayed by a witness as an impression. Dr Chauke did not make it, has not answered it before the commission, and is presumed innocent.