{"id":27050,"date":"2026-02-27T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers-qa\/channelafrica\/news\/27137\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:35:00","slug":"27137","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/27137\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Linda Gxasheka back at Madlanga Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\"><\/div>\n<div>Suspended East of Johannesburg Human Resources Head in South Africa (SA) Linda Gxasheka will this morning be back to testify before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry .<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On Thursday she denied allegations that she had failed to resolve a disciplinary issue against six officers from the Ekurhuleni Drug Enforcement unit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Police watchdog Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) had arrested the officers for allegedly extorting thousands \u00a0from a member of the public.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The officers were subsequently incorporated into Ekurhuleni&#8217;s VIP protection detail before being redeployed to the drug unit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Gxasheka has testified that the matter involving the six officers working under suspended Deputy Police Chief Julius Mkhwanazi was never brought to her attention.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She also told the Inquiry that she only knew about the situation when it was spoken about at the Madlanga Commission.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Gxasheka is one of the top Ekurhuleni officials who have been accused of protecting Mkhwanazi from facing disciplinary action.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0This after Mkhwanazi was implicated in corruption involving the unlawful fitting of blue lights in the private vehicles of Vusimuzi &#8220;Cat&#8221; Matlala.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She returns to the stand at 9:30am (local time)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13203,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-27050","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Gxasheka is one of the top Ekurhuleni officials who have been accused of protecting Mkhwanazi from facing disciplinary action.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Gxasheka is one of the top Ekurhuleni officials who have been accused of protecting Mkhwanazi from facing disciplinary action.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27050","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\/27050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27323,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27050\/revisions\/27323"}],"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=27050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}