{"id":23376,"date":"2026-02-06T06:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/security-will-be-tightened-for-witnesses-at-the-madlanga-commission-of-inquiry-sa-president\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:11","slug":"security-will-be-tightened-for-witnesses-at-the-madlanga-commission-of-inquiry-sa-president","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/security-will-be-tightened-for-witnesses-at-the-madlanga-commission-of-inquiry-sa-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Security will be tightened for witnesses at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry: SA President\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa says security will be tightened for witnesses at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry probing allegations of criminality, political Interference, and corruption in the Criminal Justice System.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This comes after an attempted hit on Wiandre Pretorius in the east of Johannesburg on Thursday morning.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pretorius was implicated by slain Witness D at the Commission for his involvement in the alleged torture and killing of a motorist, by the Ekurhuleni Metro Police officers in 2022.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last year Witness D also known as Marius van der Merwe, was killed after giving testimony at the commission.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ramaphosa has expressed profound outrage at the latest incident.<\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13203,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-23376","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"This comes after an attempted hit on Wiandre Pretorius in the east of Johannesburg on Thursday morning. \u00a0","published_date":null,"news_description":"This comes after an attempted hit on Wiandre Pretorius in the east of Johannesburg on Thursday morning. \u00a0","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23376","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\/23376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26361,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23376\/revisions\/26361"}],"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=23376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}