Suliman Carrim told the Madlanga Commission through his lawyers for 6 months that he was too ill to testify. On 15 October 2026 he was arrested at OR Tambo moments before an international flight. What the police confirmed, why the commission wanted him, and why the charge he faces is the smallest of his problems.
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…
AT A GLANCE: Former Hawks head Godfrey Lebeya concluded his evidence at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on 2 September 2026, his last day in the witness chair. Under questioning from evidence leader Advocate Lee Segeels-Ncube and later from chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Lebeya conceded that a WhatsApp message thanking him for his “efforts” on…
Godfrey Lebeya was cross-examined at the Madlanga Commission on 1 September 2026 about the 541kg of cocaine stolen from the Hawks office in Port Shepstone in November 2021. The afternoon turned on a single document, a request from the KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head to put 42 people on a polygraph, which Lebeya approved and which does…
Lieutenant Colonel Deena Govender spent Monday 31 August 2026 at the Madlanga Commission trying to account for just over R3 million in cash that went into accounts held by him and his wife, an amount chief evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson SC put to him is more than 100 times what he takes home in…
Taxi boss Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni spent Friday reading his own affidavit into the Madlanga Commission record. Each time he was asked what its central claims rested on, the answer was hearsay, a dead source, or nothing at all. He returns on 21 September to face the questioning that has not yet happened. Madoda Johannes Sibanyoni,…
Retired Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya spent 27 August 2026 in front of the Madlanga Commission giving his version of why Hawks members arrived at the Sandhurst home of murder accused Katiso Molefe on 6 December 2024. His answer is that a man phoned to say people at the address were impersonating Hawks officers, and that…
