{"id":13445,"date":"2025-10-20T07:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-minister-to-continue-testimony-before-ad-hoc-committee\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:24","slug":"sa-minister-to-continue-testimony-before-ad-hoc-committee","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-minister-to-continue-testimony-before-ad-hoc-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Minister to continue testimony before Ad Hoc Committee\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Ad Hoc Committee in parliament that is investigating allegations raised by Kwa-Zulu Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, will resume its work on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>South African (SA) Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who has been on special leave since July, will continue to give his evidence-in-chief.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mchunu has, so far, defended his decision to issue a directive to disband the Political Killings Task Team on December 31, 2024.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He has argued he has the authority to do so and the decision was lawful.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mchunu has also revealed that he had briefed SA President Cyril Ramaphosa on the decision, and the president backed his decision.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Members of Parliament will also have a chance to cross-examine Mchunu on Tuesday after the evidence leaders have completed the evidence-in-chief testimony.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13025,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-13445","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South African (SA) Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who has been on special leave since July, will continue to give his evidence-in-chief.||South African (SA) Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who has been on special leave since July, will continue to give his evidence-in-chief.","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18563,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13445\/revisions\/18563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}