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The Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi addresses the NPA Leadership Conference on August 19, 202.
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Mmamoloko Kubayi says they are already assessing the work of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry and Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee looking at those who are implicated in wrongdoing.
The two investigations which are currently underway were established to probe wide-ranging allegations made by the KZN Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi in July about criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the justice system.
The minister was briefing the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development.
Kubayi says there’s nothing prohibiting the law from taking its course.
“The issue of what is happening at the commission and the portfolio committee, we are not waiting for the end, chairperson. We are also dealing with some of the issues that are immediate. As I said, in the prosecutorial environment, the issue is that the ethics officer works and deals with the issues of that. If you look with the issues of honorable member and I don’t want to go into details because we have agreed as government, we are not going to run commentary throughout,” she says.
Meanwhile, Kubayi says security is being heightened in the country’s courts nationwide.
Kubayi says a number of security breaches occurred in several courts recently, especially in the Western Cape and Gauteng. Among the incidents was a murder committed within the premises of the Athlone Magistrate’s Court, while an unlicensed gun that was smuggled in at the Wynberg Regional Magistrate Court.
Both incidents happened in Cape Town.
Kubayi says these developments have shown some serious security weaknesses.
Parliament Ad Hoc Committee | Lieutenant General Molefe Fani:
