President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is studying the second interim report of the Madlanga Commission, describing it as a crucial process to address alleged wrongdoing within South Africa’s criminal justice system.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is studying the second interim report of the Madlanga Commission, describing it as a crucial process to address alleged wrongdoing within South Africa’s criminal justice system.
Ramaphosa received the report on Friday.
Speaking on the sidelines of a door-to-door campaign in Diepsloot on Saturday, Ramaphosa said he had received the report and was carefully reviewing its contents.
“It is a second interim report, and the Madlanga Commission is an absolutely fantastic process,” Ramaphosa said.
He said the commission was part of broader efforts to deal with what he described as “rot” within the criminal justice system, adding that the country was continuing efforts to address challenges exposed after the state capture era.
“And it is a process that is going to help us to get rid of the rot within the criminal justice system. And we’ve gone through state capture, and we’ve largely been able to rid our country of state capture,” he said.
Ramaphosa said the commission was now focusing on serious challenges within law enforcement institutions and was helping to expose wrongdoing.
“We’re now looking at the criminal justice system, which has enormous problems and challenges. The Madlanga Commission is helping us to do that,” he said.
He added that it was encouraging that individuals implicated in wrongdoing were being identified and held accountable.
“And what is pleasing with the Madlanga Commission is that people are getting identified who are involved in wrong things. They’re getting suspended. They’re getting arrested. So it is a self-cleansing process that we are going through,” Ramaphosa said.
The president said the process demonstrated that there were no political motives behind the investigations, but rather an effort to address systemic failures.
“And nobody can ever say that we are targeting them with political motives or whatever. It is unraveling things that have been going on wrongly,” he said.
Ramaphosa said that once the process was complete, it would help strengthen and “cleanse” the police service going forward.
Meanwhile, IOL previously reported that the commission will resume its public hearings on Monday, June 1, 2026, as part of its ongoing work.
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