By Tawanda Kaseke On 29 May 2026 Corruption Watch sent an urgent letter to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development, in connection with applications for a vacancy at the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). We highlighted serious concerns about the process calling for public comment on an unreasonably long list of candidates. Read more >
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Corruption Watch (CW) has written to Parliament’s portfolio committee on Justice and Constitutional Development urging it to extend the window for public commentary on the currently advertised vacancy at the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). Fresh off its August 2025 victory in the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) leadership appointment matter in the Constitutional 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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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 >
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The parliamentary ad hoc committee set up to investigate allegations of criminality and corruption in the criminal justice system, made on 6 July 2025 by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, invites individuals and interested organisations to make written submissions on matters pertinent to the scope of the enquiry, as detailed in the Terms of Read more >
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After KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s testimony over the three days of week one, it was the turn on Monday 22 September of national police commissioner Fannie Masemola, who took the stand to be questioned by chief evidence leader Terry Motau. On the following Saturday we learned that Motau had been wanting to Read more >
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The Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference, and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System – informally known as the Madlanga Commission after its chairperson, retired acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga – started its hearings on Wednesday 17 September 2025. President Cyril Ramaphosa established the commission as a response to allegations, made on 6 Read more >