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Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga speaking during an event.
The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry says that it has started to consult witnesses.
However, it says that it will only start its public hearings when it finishes testing its new ICT systems.
The commission says that the Justice and Constitutional Development Department has appointed service providers to ensure that the ICT systems are fully functional.
There’s growing criticism against the commission for postponing its hearings which were due to start on Monday.
However, the commission has cited the department’s failure to procure infrastructure.
Jeremy Michaels is the commission’s spokesperson, “The commission is focused on ensuring that all the necessary ICT infrastructure is fully functional to ensure the investigators and the legal team are able to continue with a critically important work of getting to the bottom of the allegations made by Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
Investigators and evidence leaders have been hard at work including consulting witnesses in preparation for the commission’s hearings and we will announce a date for the start of those hearings as soon as we are sure that all the ICT systems are working.”
Earlier this month, the Commission announced that the Department of Justice was responsible for logistics, while the Department of Public Works was preparing the venue.
The hearings, to be chaired by retired Constitutional Court Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, were scheduled to take place at the Bridgette Mabandla Justice College in Pretoria.
President Cyril Ramaphosa established the inquiry in a bid to address KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Provincial Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s allegations and to regain the public’s trust.
