Brian Padayachee, a senior investigator at the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), told the Madlanga Commission on Day 139 that allegations he was unqualified for his post are baseless. He also disclosed a cordial relationship with Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, including advance knowledge shared before an arrest, and described personal friendships and a mentorship with…

Retired Hawks Colonel Kobus Roelofse has told the Madlanga Commission that IDAC head Andrea Johnson forwarded the contents of a 2018 assault docket to the suspect in that case, Major General Feroz Khan, before he had answered the charge. Roelofse said the way the material was moved, through a private email account with a request…

Portia Anyamba, a former Brigadier General in the South African Air Force and a naturalised American citizen, was sentenced on 17 June 2026 to 6 months in a United States federal prison for acting as an agent of South Africa and for lying on a security clearance application. The prosecutors who asked for that sentence…

WhatsApp evidence at the Madlanga Commission links Major General Feroz Khan to an alleged plot to remove the Inspector General of Intelligence, routed through Carnilinx executive Mohamed Sayed to Julius Malema. The chats also show Khan handing over the name and home address of the complainant in a VBS case implicating Malema. In a sworn…

The Madlanga Commission has begun reading WhatsApp messages extracted from 2 iPhones seized at Major General Feroz Khan’s Houghton home, and they allegedly show the suspended Crime Intelligence officer coordinating police action with Carnilinx director Mohammed Sayed against the company’s competitors in the illegal tobacco trade. The same chats connect Khan to the late Wiandre…

It is exactly 1 year since Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s briefing set off 2 parallel investigations into the criminal justice system. Around 13 people have been arrested, the national police commissioner is suspended and criminally charged, and 2 interim reports sit unread on the President’s desk. A witness has been murdered, and another was shot…

Feroz Khan has never publicly answered a question about the allegations against him, and every institution built to ask has now failed. Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee never called him. His court challenges delayed the Madlanga Commission for weeks. The shooting stopped his testimony 48 hours before it was due. On Friday the commission will lead…

Crime scene details that emerged on Monday contradict the initial account of the shooting. The laptop was not stolen. No bullet holes were found on the vehicle. And a handwritten note names 2 serving police officers already under investigation.

Feroz Khan, the suspended Deputy Head of Crime Intelligence, was shot in Houghton on Sunday night, 48 hours before he was due to testify at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. His laptop and phone were taken at the scene, and his lawyers had been finalising his affidavit just hours before the attack. This video goes…