Special task team, Ramaphosa’s answer to the Madlanga Commission

By Johnathan Paoli

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to establish a special investigations task team to urgently probe allegations emerging from the Madlanga Commission has become the centrepiece of the state’s response to mounting claims of corruption, criminality, and political interference within the country’s criminal justice system.

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The task team, announced in the wake of the submission of the Commission’s interim report in December last year, has been mandated to fast-track criminal and disciplinary investigations against senior SAPS officers and current and former officials linked to the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality who were found to have prima facie cases to answer.

Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia confirmed that the task team would work alongside existing law-enforcement structures but with a specific focus on the individuals identified by the Commission; stressing that the interim findings had crossed