During the testimony of Colonel Brian Padayachee before the Madlanga Commission, Judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga posed a question that deserves to resonate far beyond the walls of the hearing room.“Does suspecting make someone a suspect?”
SOME questions outlive the proceedings in which they are asked.
During the testimony of Colonel Brian Padayachee before the Madlanga Commission, Judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga posed a question that deserves to resonate far beyond the walls of the hearing room.
“Does suspecting make someone a suspect?”
It was a brief exchange, but it captured a dilemma that reaches into the heart of South Africa’s constitutional democracy. At first glance, the question seems almost philosophical.
