When & where it sits
Madlanga Commission schedule
When and where the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry sits, how many days it has heard, the latest sitting dates, and how to follow each day without the 8-to-10-hour live feed.
How it sits
When and where the Commission sits
The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry sits in Pretoria, at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College, where retired Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga and the commissioners receive evidence led by the evidence leaders. Hearing days run on weekdays during each block, typically eight to ten hours, with tea and lunch adjournments.
152 sitting days are recorded here so far. The most recent is Day 152 on 31 Jul 2026. Exact upcoming dates are set and announced by the Commission; this page updates as new days are added.
Inside a sitting
How a Madlanga Commission hearing day runs
A typical hearing day opens with the chairperson confirming the day’s witness, who takes the oath. An evidence leader then takes the witness through a sworn statement paragraph by paragraph, putting the supporting exhibits - cellphone downloads, bank records, official documents - on screen as they go.
The commissioners interject with their own questions throughout, and proceedings break for tea mid-morning and for lunch around 13:00 before resuming into the afternoon. A full day can run eight to ten hours, and where a witness is not finished their evidence carries over to the next sitting day - which is why following the latest updates day to day matters.
Latest sittings
Recent Madlanga Commission hearing days
Madlanga Commission - Day 152
The Madlanga Commission continued into a third straight week on the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, with more of the directorate's own officials expected on the stand - a senior IDAC investigator was set down for Friday, with Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy's part-heard evidence to resume the following Tuesday. The week had already produced the sequence the commission is now working through in order: former IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson concluded six days of evidence on Day 150, one of her prosecutors testified against her on Day 151 and played a recorded call in which Johnson allegedly told her to leave the country rather than testify, and by Thursday evening the Justice Minister and the National Director of Public Prosecutions had suspended three senior IDAC investigators and placed the whole directorate under a six-month reset. The commission's evidence leaders had also indicated they would issue Johnson a Rule 3 notice - the mechanism by which a person implicated in evidence is put on formal notice and given the opportunity to respond - so that she can answer the new allegations, and the Justice Ministry was reported to be looking outside the directorate for someone to lead it in the interim. This entry was written while the day's proceedings were under way and will be extended once the day's evidence is on the record. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.
Madlanga Commission - Day 151
The Madlanga Commission heard from Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy, a state advocate inside the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption and, until this week, one of Andrea Johnson's own prosecutors - and the case against the case turned into a case against the leadership. The centrepiece was a recording Ramsamy made of a telephone call with Johnson on 26 July, the day Johnson wrote to the National Director of Public Prosecutions asking to be released. Played in open session, it captured Johnson saying of the commission, 'It's going to be a shitshow', dismissing a legal point with 'this is Basic Law 101, I'm surprised you don't know it', and - on what Ramsamy should do if the commission summoned her - 'if they call you, leave the country'. Ramsamy testified that Johnson had been nicknamed 'Flip-Flop, Knee-Jerk' by IDAC staff because her instructions changed through the day after she consulted chief investigator Dylan Perumal, and that Johnson personally drove an investigation staff called 'Project Diversion' which targeted national commissioner General Fannie Masemola and Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo - an 'orchestrated attack', in Ramsamy's words, on the two police leaders. She said Johnson handed her a list of suspects written on a pinkish-purple sheet on 5 December 2024 with the words 'these are the suspects, Chief and I discussed who is to be included', and that when she later saw a document before the commission that differed from the section 27 affidavit Johnson had given her that same day, 'my heart dropped to my stomach'. She told the commission it was easy inside IDAC to manipulate statements and to decide who the suspects would be, how an investigation would run and what the witnesses would say. Away from the chamber the consequences landed the same day: Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi suspended Perumal, and NDPP Advocate Andy Mothibi suspended senior investigator Brian Padayachee and investigator Suneel Bellochun, all pending disciplinary processes; Kubayi and Mothibi gave IDAC six months to reform, with skills and lifestyle audits of all 212 employees due by 14 August. Ramsamy's evidence was part-heard and she was set down to resume the following Tuesday. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.
Madlanga Commission - Day 150
Advocate Andrea Johnson concluded a sixth and final day in the Madlanga Commission's hot seat, and the day ended where the commission had been circling since her first appearance: her relationship with suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan. Commissioners put to her a set of WhatsApp exchanges submitted in evidence in which Khan greeted her as 'Hi gorgeous' and 'you gorgeous', the two spoke of missing one another, arranged dinners and discussed her visiting his home - messages the commission said showed a far closer and longer-running association than the 'very affable' acquaintance she had described on Day 144, when she said she had met him around a fiftieth birthday and had not been in contact for some eighteen months. Johnson accepted the relationship was 'very deep' and personal. The same day, chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga handed down the ruling he had reserved on Day 147: North West businessman Suleiman Carrim's application to postpone his part-heard evidence indefinitely was refused, and Carrim was directed to appear in person on 14 August 2026. Madlanga made one exception - 'Mr Carrim will be excused from appearing on the 14th of August 2026 only if he has voluntarily subjected himself to an independent evaluation by a medical specialist' - with the specialist to be nominated by the chairperson of the professional association in the relevant field of medicine and the examination agreed and completed by 3 August. It was Carrim's fifth postponement bid and the first the commission refused outright. Johnson's evidence also disclosed that senior IDAC investigator Suneel Bellochun had been served with a notice of intended suspension, following three separate complaints laid against him, among them allegations aired through a protected Political Killings Task Team witness known as Witness N that he had extorted money from undocumented traders. On the evidence that had emerged during her testimony, the commission's evidence leaders signalled that Johnson would be recalled to answer new allegations. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.
Madlanga Commission - Day 149
Advocate Andrea Johnson returned to the Madlanga Commission for a fifth day - her first as the former head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, a day after her resignation took effect - and faced questions about whether the directorate had prosecuted selectively. Commissioner Advocate Sesi Baloyi SC asked why IDAC had not pursued allegations that Crime Intelligence funds were diverted to former police minister Bheki Cele, a matter she put squarely within the directorate's mandate; Johnson answered that she had received no briefing on it, and Baloyi replied that, 'on the extreme end, it speaks to selective investigations and prosecutions if this was overlooked'. Johnson undertook to check whether her former team had ever pursued the allegations. On the previous day's evidence that a statement attributed to MP Fadiel Adams had been fabricated, she said she had no knowledge of it and that no one had ever raised it with her, while accepting the chronology was implausible and deferring the detail to the investigators. She also struggled to account for IDAC's investigation into the Political Killings Task Team: she said she had no recall of ordering it and had only recently learned it existed, despite having signed a summons for task-team records and an April 2025 prosecution memorandum authorising it, and despite telling Parliament's ad hoc committee that IDAC was not investigating the task team; evidence leader Advocate Mahlape Sello SC pressed her, and Johnson said the memorandum 'related to the promotions, and that was all it related to'. The day's evidence further covered fraud and corruption charges arising from a Crime Intelligence forklift worth close to R1 million for which a supplier was paid but which was never delivered - a matter Johnson accepted looked more like a breach of contract than a crime. Her testimony was continuing when this entry was written; all allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.
Madlanga Commission - Day 148
On the day President Cyril Ramaphosa accepted her immediate resignation, Advocate Andrea Johnson returned to the Madlanga Commission for a fourth day and the case her directorate built against Crime Intelligence came apart in public. The commission heard that two members of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption's own team - state advocate Drushantha Ramsamy and investigator Mantsha Raphesu, both on the docket, whose names outlets reported inconsistently at the time and which the record has since settled - had disputed, in recorded voice notes, the authenticity of a supplementary statement marked 'A1' that IDAC chief investigator Dylan Perumal later filed in court and before the commission as evidence from complainant MP Fadiel Adams. One asked why 'two investigating officers sitting in the same boardroom' would have taken different statements on the same day, confirming that only four statements were taken in her presence during the 6 January 2025 interview in Cape Town; the other said the A1 'could not have been possible because on that day we only obtained the supplementaries'. Johnson accepted the timeline did not hold - 'procedurally it does not make sense; you cannot have one team together, same day, same place' - Commissioner Advocate Sandile Khumalo SC said the material pointed to serious misconduct, and evidence leader Advocate Mahlape Sello SC asked whether the commission was 'confronted with a fraudulent Section 27'. Under questioning from Commissioner Advocate Sesi Baloyi SC, Johnson also conceded that IDAC investigators 'may well be conducting investigations of individuals that are not authorised', that the directorate was 'not supposed to solicit' complaints from the public, and that she had never personally verified Brigadier Dineo Mokwele's qualifications before charges were brought against her - 'I relied on the briefing from my team. I trusted them implicitly. I now see the facts I received then were incorrect' - withdrawing her earlier description of the appointment as a 'token appointment' and apologising to Mokwele. Chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga separately announced that the commission would institute criminal proceedings against a person who, on the face of it, deliberately disclosed the identity of a witness who had testified anonymously; he named neither. The same day, the National Prosecuting Authority confirmed that National Director of Public Prosecutions Advocate Andy Mothibi had signed a provisional withdrawal, before plea, of the corruption case against Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and his co-accused. All allegations are untested and everyone named is presumed innocent.
Madlanga Commission - Day 147
The Madlanga Commission heard North West businessman Suleiman Carrim's latest application to postpone the continuation of his part-heard testimony, in open session after the chairperson rejected his bid to have the application itself heard in camera - news organisations had opposed a wholly private hearing, and Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga ruled it would proceed publicly on condition that the details of Carrim's medical condition were not disclosed. Carrim, who first testified on 9-10 March 2026 and has been declared unfit by his doctors at every scheduled return since a health scare in April, was said by the evidence leaders to be functioning day to day: evidence leader Advocate Adila Hassim SC put it to the commission that on 14 July he had spent a four-hour authorised excursion from his facility at a Durbanville mall in Cape Town's northern suburbs, entering a Woolworths store and a Kauai eatery, footage of which the commission had but did not screen publicly. His doctor's account described the outing as a chaperoned excursion between 1pm and 5pm, subject to strict authorisation and search protocols. Hassim SC went further, putting cellphone geolocation data to the commission which she said showed Carrim leaving the facility almost every single day and staying out for at least eight hours at a time, contradicting affidavits from his wife and his doctor about restricted movement, and asked the commission to order an independent medical assessment. Madlanga was openly sceptical that a date for the resumption of his evidence could be relied on - 'an educated guess would lead one to say we can't hold our breath' - and said the claim that only Carrim could supply the names of his companies' auditors, outstanding since March, was 'patently false'. The commission reserved its ruling, with 14 August 2026 flagged as a possible resumption date. Carrim is presumed innocent and the allegations against him remain untested.
Madlanga Commission - Day 146
Advocate Andrea Johnson resumed a third day of testimony at the Madlanga Commission, giving evidence on the section 27 referral affidavit that led to the arrest of Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and six other officials. She addressed the involvement of senior investigator Suneel Bellochun in the Khumalo matter and testified that Khumalo's arrest was unrelated to the work of the Political Killings Task Team. The day continued the commission's scrutiny, over her three appearances, of whether IDAC had the mandate and the evidence to bring the Crime Intelligence prosecutions, and of the separate whistleblower allegation that Johnson shielded Major-General Feroz Khan in 2018. All allegations are untested; Johnson, Khumalo and Khan are presumed innocent.
Madlanga Commission - Day 145
IDAC head Advocate Andrea Johnson returned for a second day at the Madlanga Commission, where evidence leader Advocate Mahlape Sello SC and the commissioners pressed her on whether the directorate had overreached in the Crime Intelligence case. Johnson conceded she had made an error in concluding that the corruption matter against Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo fell within IDAC's mandate, an admission over the legal test applied to a section 27 referral. She pushed back on the suggestion that IDAC had improperly 'solicited' an affidavit from National Coloured Congress MP Fadiel Adams - 'I don't agree with solicited; we're not supposed to solicit' - though it emerged that IDAC investigator Dylan Perumal had told Adams the directorate could not proceed without a specific affidavit from him; Adams's complaint helped trigger the 2025 arrests of seven Crime Intelligence officers, including Khumalo. Commissioner Advocate Sesi Baloyi SC put it to Johnson that IDAC had misused its power by taking intrusive steps against the officers too quickly and without a proper legislative basis, to which Johnson repeatedly answered 'no comment'. Proceedings adjourned about an hour early after Johnson said medication she was taking was having a debilitating effect. All allegations are untested; those named are presumed innocent.
Madlanga Commission - Day 144
The head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), Advocate Andrea Johnson, finally took the stand at the Madlanga Commission after her July postponements, and used her first day to answer the whistleblower evidence against her while disclosing a death threat of her own. Johnson told the commission she received a threatening SMS in the days before Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo's arrest on 26 June 2025 - the first death threat of her prosecutorial career - which named her and colleagues and said 'get body bags ready'; it came from an unregistered SIM and the sender was never identified. She denied any political interference in the Khumalo case, said IDAC's investigations are 'driven by evidence, not politics' and predate her taking office, and rejected being part of an alleged 'Khan-IDAC cabal'. On the central allegation - that in 2018, as an NPA prosecutor, she caused Brigadier Leonora Phetlhe's assault-case docket to be leaked to Major-General Feroz Khan - Johnson said her 'memory needed jogging', described Khan as 'very affable' and acknowledged a past social acquaintance, including his 50th birthday, but said they had had no contact for about a year and a half after she distanced herself over allegations linking him to individuals connected to two murders. She confirmed the allegations against her and Khan sit in an NPA docket that will decide whether she is prosecuted, and invoked her constitutional right against self-incrimination on the Khan-related questions. All allegations are untested; Johnson and Khan are presumed innocent.
Madlanga Commission - Day 143
The Madlanga Commission sat entirely behind closed doors as the anonymous businessman known only as 'Witness M' continued the in-camera testimony he began under the 8 July ruling that granted him a private hearing on safety grounds. Witness M is giving evidence on one of the major 2021 cocaine busts under investigation - the consignment routed from Durban that was later compromised - and his affidavit is understood to touch on politically exposed individuals, organised-crime families, drug syndicates and law-enforcement officers. Because the session was closed, no public evidence was heard; the commission indicated open hearings would resume the following day. Nothing said in camera is a finding, and anyone who may be named is presumed innocent.
Questions
Madlanga Commission schedule: common questions
When does the Madlanga Commission sit?
The Madlanga Commission sits on weekdays during its hearing blocks, usually from mid-morning with a tea and lunch adjournment, often running eight to ten hours. The latest recorded sitting was Day 152 on 31 Jul 2026. Exact upcoming dates are set by the Commission and announced on its official roll.
Where is the Madlanga Commission held?
Hearings are held in Pretoria, at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College, where the Chairperson and commissioners receive evidence.
How many days has the Madlanga Commission sat?
152 hearing days are recorded in this archive so far, the most recent being Day 152 (31 Jul 2026).
Can I follow the Madlanga Commission live or today?
Yes. This archive turns each day's testimony into a readable record. See who is on the stand now on the home page, the newest hearing days and documents on the Latest page, and the full day-by-day chronicle under Hearings.
Covering 11 months of hearings, this is part of The Madlanga Commission public-record archive - follow the latest day, the case files, and the witnesses.