Unnamed sources now say Preggy Padayachee, the uncle-in-law of fired Crime Intelligence Major General Feroz Khan, was lured to the R21 over money and that his murder had nothing to do with Khan. The police say the motive is unknown and nobody has been arrested. Khan’s lawyers treat the shooting as a threat to their client and have tied his evidence to the Madlanga Commission to security arrangements. Both positions cannot be true, and the commission’s final report is due on 25 January 2027.

Preggy Padayachee, who spoke for Feroz Khan’s family on the night Khan was shot in June, has been named as the man shot dead on the R21 in Ekurhuleni on the evening of Monday 5 October 2026. Khan was due to give evidence to the Madlanga Commission behind closed doors the next day. The commission has since postponed that evidence to a date still to be set. The police say the motive is unknown and nobody has been arrested.

Taxi boss Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni told the Madlanga Commission on 29 September 2026 that he helped with the legal fees of a man serving life for murdering a taxi marshal, because the man’s mother asked him to. He also said a second convicted taxi killer, whose defence was discussed in the same arrangement, “used to…

On 28 September 2026, the Madlanga Commission read the WhatsApp messages on Pretoria taxi boss Bafana “King of the Sky” Sindane’s phone into the record, after his last-minute court bid to stop it failed. The messages link Sindane and Mpumalanga taxi boss Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni to the unpaid lawyer of 2 men serving life for…