Chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga leads the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, scrutinising testimonies and evidence as critical questions arise over police credibility and the handling of a significant cocaine seizure.
Questions over the credibility of police evidence, the handling of a 27kg cocaine seizure, and the medical absence of North West businessman Suliman Carrim dominated proceedings at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry this week, as commissioners intensified their scrutiny of witnesses and the evidence underpinning key aspects of the inquiry.
Over five days of hearings, the commission examined conflicting police records linked to the disappearance of cocaine from a Hawks evidence store, questioned the legal basis of high-profile corruption investigations, and set strict disclosure deadlines ahead of Carrim's bid to postpone his testimony.
Much of Friday's proceedings centred on Hawks Warrant Officer Mbongeleni Felix Mpangase, whose two-day testimony focused on the June 2021 seizure of 27kg of cocaine from a shipping container at the CHS depot in Isipingo.
The inquiry is investigating what happened to the drugs after their transfer to the Hawks' evidence store in Port Shepstone, where they subsequently disappeared.
