{"id":13446,"date":"2025-10-20T07:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/three-witnesses-to-testify-before-madlanga-commission-in-sa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:24","slug":"three-witnesses-to-testify-before-madlanga-commission-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/three-witnesses-to-testify-before-madlanga-commission-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Three witnesses to testify before Madlanga Commission in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Three witnesses are expected to testify before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria, South Africa (SA), this week. Proceedings will be partially heard in camera\u00a0<span dir=\"ltr\">from today until Wednesday<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The witnesses\u2019 testimonies are expected to relate to their experiences as detectives investigating criminal cartels.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Proceedings are continuing in line with a ruling handed down by Chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga last week.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Justice Madlanga ruled that this week\u2019s witnesses will testify via audio from a remote location. This arrangement follows an agreement reached between media houses\u00a0<i>Daily Maverick<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Media24<\/i>, and the Commission\u2019s evidence leaders.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last week, Witness X, who was testifying remotely through an intermediary\u00a0 experienced technical challenges believed to have compromised their safety.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13203,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-13446","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The witnesses\u2019 testimonies are expected to relate to their experiences as detectives investigating criminal cartels.||The witnesses\u2019 testimonies are expected to relate to their experiences as detectives investigating criminal cartels.","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13446","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\/13446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18564,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13446\/revisions\/18564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}