Parliament’s Ad hoc Committee into allegations made by by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Deputy Police Minister Cassel Mathale is appearing before Parliament’s Ad hoc Committee on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mathale is the sixth witness to appear before the committee. He has been the Deputy Minister of Police since 2019. Mathale served under Bheki Cele’s…
The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. A new witness has taken the stand at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. The inquiry is investigating allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system. Captain Solomon Modisane, a senior Forensic Analyst (Ballistics) with the SAPS Forensic Science Laboratory in Silverton, Pretoria, and deployed to the…
FILE| Confiscated firearm at a police station. Head of the Ballistics Section at the Police Forensic Science Laboratory Mishak Mkhabela says there is a massive backlog of firearm-related cases. Mkhabela is testifying at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria. He says his unit is battling to keep up with more than 41 000 cases…
Mondli Gungubele at OR and Adelaide Tambo wreath laying ceremony in Wattville, 27 October 2025. African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) Member Mondli Gungubele says ANC members must embrace the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry and seek to learn from what comes out of it. Gungubele delivered the keynote address at a ceremony to…
Brigadier Mishak Mkhabela, head of the Ballistics Section at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Silverton. Limited resources at the SAPS forensic laboratory Services have come under the spotlight at the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria. Head of the Ballistics Section at the Police Forensic Science Laboratory, Brigadier Mishak Mkhabela, has testified that staff shortages are crippling…
SABC Digital News The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into allegations of criminality, political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system goes into its eighteenth day of hearings with a new witness on the stand. The witness, Brigadier Mishak Mkhabela, is SAPS National Head of the Ballistics Section, stationed at the Forensic Science Laboratory in…
KZN Premier Thami Ntuli leading a Human Resource Development Council Strategic session, June 2025. The National Freedom Party (NFP) says it has lost confidence in KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli. The party is citing financial mismanagement and lack of transparency in the Government of Provincial Unity. The party says the current administration has failed to deliver…
Commission Chair retired Constitutional Court Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga. A forensic ballistics expert from the South African Police Service (SAPS) is scheduled to testify at the Madlanga Commission sitting at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College in Pretoria on Monday. The witness will take the stand at 09:30 as the Commission resumes its public hearings, investigating allegations…
ActionSA banner at an event Eight former ActionSA councillors in the City of Johannesburg have filed an urgent court application. They are seeking an interdict preventing the party from replacing them, pending the outcome of a dispute regarding their contested dismissal from the council. The spokesperson for the applicants, Elmari Atterbury, says the matter will…
uMkhonto weSizwe party leader Jacob Zuma. The Jacob Zuma Foundation has cautioned the public against getting involved in unauthorised fundraising campaigns circulating online. It says some people are claiming to raise money for the former President Jacob Zuma’s legal fees. The Foundation says it has noted the recirculation of an old fundraising poster and stresses…
