In August this year Corruption Watch (CW) celebrated as the Constitutional Court handed down its judgment in the organisation’s challenge to the validity of the appointment of five commissioners to the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE). The court deemed the appointment process, undertaken in 2022, to be invalid as it offered inadequate public participation. CW Read more >
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Some interesting developments which came up at the Madlanga commission last week, as well as the testimony of anonymous witnesses whose identities were protected through innovative measures, ensured another gripping series of hearings. On 13 October the Daily Maverick and News24 challenged the commission’s decision to hold the week’s hearings in camera (Latin, literally ‘in Read more >
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Today, 17 October, is the deadline for individuals and interested organisations to make written submissions on matters relating to the scope of the enquiry of the parliamentary ad hoc committee set up to investigate allegations of criminality and corruption in the criminal justice system, made publicly on 6 July 2025 by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Read more >
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Organised crime is in the news again, this time in relation to the astounding allegations, made on 6 July 2025 by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, that South Africa’s criminal justice system was compromised because of the infiltration of criminal syndicates into police, judicial, parliamentary, political, intelligence, and law enforcement structures. As a result Read more >
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By Ugljesa Radulovic, senior postdoctoral research fellow, and Tina Uys, professor of sociology, University of Johannesburg First published on The Conversation: Africa South Africa’s long history of wrongdoing spans from Willem Adriaan van der Stel’s days of running a corrupt trading monopoly to present-day South Africa. Van der Stel was the second Governor of the Read more >
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In a well-functioning democracy, where politicians are elected to represent the people of the country and act as their voice, public participation is a critical and essential good governance tool that fosters accountability, transparency, and public oversight. This gives people the chance to meaningfully participate in decisions that affect their lives. In South Africa, as Read more >
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Image: Justice and Security Cluster on X The 11-member ad hoc committee set up to investigate allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, commenced with its hearings on 7 October 2025. As with the currently sitting Madlanga commission of inquiry into the same topic, the first witness was Mkhwanazi. The committee is chaired Read more >
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By Asive Xali, Africa CheckFirst published on Africa Check The Madlanga commission of inquiry, chaired by retired deputy chief justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, began its hearings on 17 September 2025. It was established after explosive allegations by a senior police official that a powerful criminal group had compromised South Africa’s law enforcement structures. Among those implicated is national police minister Read more >
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The Madlanga commission took its first break this week since the start of its public hearings on 17 September, hearing only two days’ of evidence. It was in the middle of the testimony of Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo, who heads up the crime intelligence division of the South African Police Service (SAPS), that the general took Read more >