KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Picture: Nigel Sibanda The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry will resume its work in late January, just over four months since the first hearing in mid-September. A continuation date has been set for 26 January, more than six months after KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Police Commission Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi rocked South Africa’s security cluster.
Mkhwanazi’s allegations, and those of subsequent witnesses, have been compiled in an interim report submitted to President Cyril Ramaphosa; however, the commission is only a third of the way through its work. What transpired before the December break was phase one of the commission, which laid the “factual foundation” of Mkhwanazi’s allegations. Commission spokesperson Jeremy Michaels explained that phase one was intended to allow witnesses to present evidence supporting Mkhwanazi’s allegations.
“As part of its remaining work, dozens of witnesses are due to appear before the commission over the next few months,” Michaels stated yesterday. “However, the evidence was not subjected to testing and questioning in phase one. “Phase two provides persons implicated in phase one an opportunity to respond to the allegations made against them and, where applicable, to make their own allegations,” he clarified.
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Phase two will not be limited to responses from those implicated, as any matters covered by thecommission’s terms of referencemay be revisited in this phase. Following phase two, which does not have a fixed timeframe, phase three will subject Mkhwanazi and the other witnesses to “testing questioning”, after which miscellaneous matters could be addressed. “Phase three will provide for the recall of Lieutenant-General Mkhwanazi and the witnesses supporting his allegations.
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