By Johnathan Paoli
Ten months after President Cyril Ramaphosa established the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System, also known as the Madlanga Commission the inquiry has entered a crucial pause in its work as commissioners prepare their second interim report due to be handed to the president on 29 May.
Commission chairperson and former Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga announced that the commission would adjourn public hearings from 18 May until 1 June to focus on compiling the report, which is expected to address some of the most explosive allegations yet heard about organised crime, political interference, and corruption inside South Africa’s policing and criminal justice institutions.
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The commission’s final report is due by 31 August, but already the inquiry has transformed into one of the most consequential post-apartheid investigations
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