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Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi will resume giving evidence at the Madlanga Commission on Thursday morning, to continue elaborating on claims that South Africa’s policing and criminal justice system has been subverted by criminal networks, aided by dodgy politicians.
On Wednesday, Mkhwanazi – the KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner – testified for nearly six hours in Pretoria, at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College, telling commission chair retired justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga and evidence leaders that Senzo Mchunu – then as full-time police commissioner – was seemingly influenced by nefarious forces to collapse the highly effective KwaZulu-Natal Political Killings Task Team.
“To me, it was a wrong conclusion that the minister [Senzo Mchunu] has reached, which is why it became a matter of concern. The minister’s conclusion of saying that the team does not add any value in policing in South Africa was misplaced.
“It is my belief that perhaps, as I had said in the public in the very same month of January, that someone influenced the minister to do this,” Mkhwanazi said on day one of the proceedings, as part of his length testimony.
But most notable on Wednesday was this statement by Mkhwanazi: “The minister is fully involved in the syndicate… Evidence is there on record.”
DAY TWO: WATCH MKHWANAZI LIVE AT MADLANGA COMMISSION
How commission came about
On 6 July 2025, Mkhwanazi – surrounded by a menacing of Special Task Force members during a press conference in KwaZulu-Natal – told South Africans that some police officers, members of the judiciary, unnamed Gauteng prosecutors, politicians and Correctional Services officials, were allegedly part of a crime syndicate controlled by a drug cartel.
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These allegations would eventually spur President Cyril Ramaphosa into instituting the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System, known as the Madlanga Commission.
Mkhwanazi’s scat
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