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Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi speaking at a SAPS Awards ceremony.
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi will be the first witness to testify before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry when hearings begin in Pretoria on the 17th of September.
The Commission, appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa, confirmed at a briefing on Monday that consultations with Mkhwanazi are ongoing, but his appearance is secured.
The inquiry is investigating Mkhwanazi’s claims that criminal syndicates have infiltrated South Africa’s law-enforcement agencies.
The Commission’s spokesperson Jeremy Michaels says, “We can now confirm that the consultation to which the chairperson of the Commission, Justice Madlanga, referred was with Lieutenant-General Mkhwanazi, whom the Commission intends to call as its first witness. The Commission has simultaneously been in consultation with a number of other witnesses whose details, based on security considerations, we are not at liberty to divulge.”
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