Madlanga Commission accuses ANC’s Carrim of abusing process to avoid testifying

By Johnathan Paoli

Retired Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga has accused businessman and ANC member Suleiman Carrim of manufacturing urgency and abusing court processes in a last-minute bid to stop the Madlanga Commission from compelling his testimony.

This forms the central thrust of the commission’s heads of argument and Madlanga’s answering affidavit filed on 2 February in the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg.

In an answering affidavit, Madlanga said the commission was subjected to an “extraordinary truncation of time periods” after Carrim launched his urgent application on 26 January, despite having known that he was required to testify on 6 February.

“Mr Carrim’s application was launched on 26 January 2026. The commission was given less than 36 hours to file its answering affidavit.

“It was served after hearings commenced on the morning of 26 January 2026 and in the knowledge that my fellow commissioners and I would be required to sit in hearings