Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala appeared before the Madlanga Commission on 24, 25 and 26 August 2026, and spent most of those 3 days refusing to answer questions. Over the course of the week the commission tested every reason he gave for that silence, and each one fell away. On the third day Commissioner Baloyi asked him…
On 18 August 2026 the Madlanga Commission spent Day 161 reading WhatsApp messages taken off the phone of Jothan Msibi, named in police testimony as the president of the Big Five cartel, who died in January 2024. The day was scheduled only because Vusimuzi Matlala’s testimony had been postponed and no other witness could step…
Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s written statement to the Madlanga Commission answered almost none of the questions put to him, leaving out 10 of the 28 people he was asked to explain his relationship with. But under questioning from the Commissioners on 17 August 2026, he gave sworn evidence linking a middleman, a former Minister of Police…
Day 158 of the Madlanga Commission heard 2 witnesses on the killing of Bevan Loftus and 4 other men by police in a Durban flat on 1 April 2023. The first was his father, a former policeman who says his son was murdered in cold blood. The second was a retired SAPS captain and firearms…
An IPID investigator told the Madlanga Commission on 12 August 2026 that a Durban police task team commander received cash payments totalling R2 712 612 in the 16 months after Bevan Loftus and 4 other men were shot dead by his team. Loftus’s father had gone to the High Court to try to stop the…
State Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy returned to the Madlanga Commission on 11 August 2026 with new documents on the Mokwele and Medicare24 matters. Commissioner Sesi Baloyi stated on the record that Andrea Johnson lied to Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee on Police about when a key referral was received. Ramsamy also testified about an undisclosed affidavit, a…
National Coloured Congress leader and MP Fadiel Adams was scheduled to take the witness stand at the Madlanga Commission on the morning of 11 August 2026. Commission spokesperson Jeremy Michaels said the sworn affidavit and its annexures only reached the commission after 9pm the previous evening. Adams was first served with a Rule 3 notice…
Matthews Sesoko, IDAC’s Head of Investigations and Operations, gave the Madlanga Commission the fullest account yet of Project Diversion on 6 August 2026. His morning testimony described institutional trauma and a kidnapping that he says left him excluded from the operation. By the afternoon, cross examination showed he had been far more involved than his…
State Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy testified before the Madlanga Commission on 5 August that a section 28(1) authorisation presented by Advocate Andrea Johnson is a fabrication she never prepared. She also testified that lead investigator Colonel Brian Padayachee does not know how to investigate, and that suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu held private meetings with Johnson…
Parliament suspended National Coloured Congress leader and MP Fadiel Adams for 20 days, effective 3 August 2026, after an ethics committee finding linked to a social media post from December 2025. When Parliament announced the suspension to the Section 89 Impeachment Committee this week, it gave no details about the reason. Adams is scheduled to…
