Ad hoc committee chairperson Soviet Lekganyane at Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Facility in Pretoria on 27 November 2025. Picture: Gallo Images/Lefty Shivambu Despite National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza’s refusal to issue subpoenas, parliament’s ad hoc committee continues to demand that alleged political fixer Oupa Brown Mogotsi and private investigator Paul O’Sullivan appear before its inquiry. The committee held a virtual housekeeping meeting on Monday that lasted just over five hours, as it races against time to complete its work by 20 February.
Several MPs expressed concern that individuals repeatedly named during testimony have yet to appear before the inquiry. uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party MP David Skosana said crime intelligence senior official Feroz Khan should be called to testify, noting that his name had surfaced during multiple submissions. Khan heads the Counter-Intelligence and Security Intelligence division.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said suspended deputy national police commissioner Francinah Vuma should also be summoned. MK party MP Vusi Shongwe added that ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula and President Cyril Ramaphosa had been implicated. “There’s this list of names that keeps on disappearing, and I don’t know how,” Shongwe said.
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Committee secretary Vhonani Ramaano told MPs that public submissions would conclude on 3 February, with four remaining witnesses, including two anonymous individuals. Former acting national police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane is expected to continue his testimony on 4 and 5 February, while Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Diane Kohler-Barnard and National Coloured Congress (NCC) leader Faidel Adams are scheduled to appear on 11 February. Ramaano indicated that Mogotsi, O’Sullivan and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi were the only remaining witnesses without confirmed dates.
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