The crew of radio personalities, podcasters and handful of anti-Malema engagement farming accounts are determined to cast doubt on the Ad Hoc Committee and Parliament, and are adding no value to the discourse.
Two separate arms of the state, the Executive and the Legislature are conducting an inquiry - to expect the legislature to deal with supplementary statements of a Commission established by the Executive, when no founding statements are before them, and further reference to the Madlanga Commission constantly in a process of the legislature, is a dangerous undermining of separation of powers.
To reference a Portfolio Committee meeting on Police which sat on the 5th of March 2025 as proof of negligence on Parliament, whereas that meeting did not deal with the extent of allegations made on the 6 of July 2025 Press briefing is yet another distortion - as it peddles the idea that “Parliament” already looked away when it had undertaken multiple remedial process including lifestyle audits in SAPS based on what was before it.
If the intervention by Julius Malema was not made this morning, which prevented the undermining of this process at the hands of the Senior Counsel, then the Ad Hoc Committee’s work would have been put into a legitimacy crisis once taken on review.
Let’s interact with the delays to the proceedings at the Ad Hoc Committee rationally and materially - and one thing the EFF has gotten right in Parliament looking at this year alone for example, is matters of process and law.
The rest is just noise here from former politicians and commentators who have developed a hero-syndrome for Lt General Mkhwanazi. We must never allow commentators to undermine institutions which are a product of democracy and electoral process simply because they are now on the outside looking in.
We are here to work and protect the integrity and legitimacy of that work, not praise sing, simple.