Suliman Carrim’s Madlanga commission: Judgement to be delivered on Thursday

Retired judge Mbuyiseni Madlanga. Picture: Gallo Images North West businessman Suliman Carrim’s bid to not testify at the Madlanga Commission will be decided on Thursday. This is after the Gauteng High Court on Tuesday postponed the matter for judgment on Thursday.

Carrim’s urgent attempt to avoid testifying before the Madlanga commission has been challenged, with the commission arguing it constitutes an abuse of court process. The ANC member launched an urgent application to the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Monday seeking to prevent the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference, and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System from compelling his testimony. Carrim is scheduled to appear before the commission on Friday, February 6.

Responding to the application, commission chairperson retired Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga told the high court that Carrim has failed to establish valid grounds for urgency. “The application is an abuse of process, and any urgency faced by Mr Carrim is self-created,” he said. Madlanga argued that Carrim rushed to court with insufficient notice.

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“He abused the court’s process by rushing to court on less than a week’s notice, and the time periods afforded to the commission were unreasonably short. “I respectfully submit that the application should be struck from the roll with punitive costs, alternatively dismissed with punitive costs,” he said.

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