Madlanga Commission of Inquiry · South Africa
South Africa's police was corrupted.
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Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“I would hand over the evidence when I was comfortable that they were in fact who they said they were”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams → Independent Police Investigative Directorate
“the person I spoke to said to me, no, if the Minister has referred, you can be assured that we will call you back”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Segeels-Ncube → Fadiel Adams
“you say it is because of the answers that were given by General Masemola at the Portfolio Committee.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Chairperson → Colonel Phillips
“Colonel Phillips has written there that he did an introduction and explained the purpose of the call”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“my faith in the process was if I email the Minister, or if I put enough pressure on, and I was going to take this to Parliament itself, then things will happen”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Baloyi SC → Fadiel Adams
“you do become aware after the 1st of November, or from the 1st of November, you do become aware that there is an investigation”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“I am also under the impression that Western Cape SAPS are the people that came to confiscate my dockets”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“I am complaining about the National Commissioner telling us that, amongst other things, General Madondo's position at Crime Intelligence, all is above board”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Segeels-Ncube → Adams email of 10 November to Mr Nkabinde
“your email on the 10th of November has nothing to do with your complaint about your dockets being intercepted”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Segeels-Ncube → Adams email of 10 November to Mr Nkabinde
“I make this request as your National Commissioner has claimed all is above board in the case of the allegations made against Major General Khumalo.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“If indeed the Commissioner's position is compromised in this regard, please view our concerns with concern”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“your National Commissioner has claimed all is above board in the case of the allegations made against Major General Khumalo”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Chairperson → Fadiel Adams
“at the time you approached the Minister, you never had any idea about either the Minister himself or just the possibility of an outside entity being approached.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“I am actually off expecting the Minister to use his powers, whatever they may be, to see to it that this stops.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“I actually did expect the Minister to approach like he did with the IDAC or the Public Protector or whichever Commission there was.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“It could have been the Public Protector. It could have been the IPID. It could have been the Minister could have assigned someone.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Segeels-Ncube → Fadiel Adams
“will call Colonel Phillips by the end of the week to confirm when he, Mr Adams, will be coming to GP.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“if he had sent me an e -mail saying this thing is being investigated by the Office of X, Y, and Z, I would have had proof of something, tangible proof”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Colonel Phillips → Crime Intelligence Division
“The allegations contained in the criminal dockets are directed at senior officers attached to the Division Crime Intelligence.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Colonel Phillips → Fadiel Adams
“he alleged that the SAPS provincial offices that interfered in the investigation of criminal dockets opened at Cape Town Central SAPS and Orlando SAPS”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Colonel Phillips
“As part of my duties, I also assist in investigations of service complaints received at Division Inspectorate.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Lt-Gen Jacobs
“The complainant sent an email to the office of the Minister of Police wherein the complainant alleged the following…”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Lt-Gen Jacobs
“Provide information on a concern levelled in the email received with Fact Adams MP, hereinafter referred to as the complainant, and for your office to provide a legal opinion of criminal dockets opened by the complainant.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Segeels-Ncube → Cedrick Nkabinde
“please furnish this office with a report in responding to this complaint and the details of the investigating officer who was assigned to investigating these cases”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Segeels-Ncube → Major General ZM Mkhwanazi
“the criticism that General Mkhwanazi made about within an hour, in less than an hour, the Minister responds to your email”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Chairperson → Adv Lee Segeels-Ncube
“Ms Segeels-Ncube could not have been as open as she was if anything is intended to be done or was intended to be done to that recording”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams → South African Police Service
“the ministry asked SAPS to respond and to furnish his office with a report with regards to this complaint”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“if we have incompetent and compromised people at Crime Intelligence we might as well close the place”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“If I put it in the docket for anyone to see, I would have been guilty of mishandling the information”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“I asked the Minister, and if you read paragraph 5, to intervene and ensure the integrity of the investigative process”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Segeels-Ncube → Fadiel Adams
“you are in a position to say to the Minister of Police that your dockets in Johannesburg have also been intercepted”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Baloyi SC → Fadiel Adams
“we discussed this and how we are going to do it, let us lay many charges, open many dockets so that when they take one, the others survive”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“There was no plan to go and lay initial charges and if my information that the dockets had disappeared, if that does not happen, then I never come to Johannesburg to lay charges.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“When those dockets end up in Pretoria, we sit down and we discuss how to prevent the dockets disappearing again”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“let us lay many cases or something, I paraphrase, so that none, you know, if one takes the other, the others remain”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“this is something that I had discussed with people that maybe we should just spread it around and make it harder for them to collect”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams → Cedrick Nkabinde
“my first conversation with him was when he called me maybe a week after his office had made the IDAC referral”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Chairperson → Fadiel Adams
“It would have been a matter of relative ease for you to establish what is the nearest police station from the airport”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams → General Andre Lincoln
“If you mentioned a policeman to Andre Lincoln, he would tell you that is a good guy. No, do not bother with that one”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams → General Andre Lincoln
“General Lincoln, who was a retired General at the time, had so much knowledge about what was happening within Crime Intelligence that he was feeding you this information”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams → General Andre Lincoln
“Whether they knew each other, whether General Lincoln knew General Khan on a personal level, I do not know”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams → General Andre Lincoln
“General Lincoln said to him, listen here, we have got a serious case, the dockets are disappearing, can you assist?”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Vusimuzi Cat Matlala
“I informed him that I would be in the vicinity of the Orlando precinct policing area the following day and that he could meet with me at the Orlando Police Station in the afternoon”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Vusimuzi Cat Matlala
“I have known Mr Fadiel Adams while he was an activist prior to him being a Member of Parliament associated with the National Coloured Congress”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Segeels-Ncube → Fadiel Adams
“you did not mention it or bring it to the attention of the Portfolio Committee before you went to go and lay the charges at Grand Central”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Segeels-Ncube → Fadiel Adams
“you did not mention to the Ad Hoc Committee that you had mentioned the receipt of the confidential documents to Ad Hoc, to Mr Cameron”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Adv Segeels-Ncube → Fadiel Adams
“after he dies, you appear before Ad Hoc, and then you have revealed that General Lincoln was your source”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams → Maj Gen Lushaba
“I did not even know that General Lushaba was the CFO of Crime Intelligence when I first heard about it”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“I cannot say with certainty about the others. And I am going to say, and I know this might not really help you, I am unsure.”
Day 163 · 20 Aug 2026
Mr Fadiel Adams
“I personally suggest, and the Commission must guide me, that I do not talk about this if it is under investigation”