The committee plans to call at least six more witnesses<\/a> and to receive public submissions from 15 individuals and five civil society organisations before the end of January.<\/p>\nThe EFF said it also wants parliamentarians, the Democratic Alliace (DA)\u2019s Dianne Kohler-Barnard and the National Coloured Congress (NCC)\u2019s Fadiel Adams, to respond to testimony given by witnesses regarding their alleged handling of Crime Intelligence information.<\/p>\n
MK Party member David Skosana said Parliament\u2019s ad hoc committee should not only probe allegations made against the police, but also consider a list of judges\u2019 names that the party said it has submitted to the committee, which have not been made public.<\/p>\n
The committee has already heard from members of the judiciary, including outgoing National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shamila Batohi and Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) head Andrea Johnson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to have them here. It\u2019s not only about the police. We have judgments which leave much to be desired. They are not a law unto themselves,\u201d said Skhosana.<\/p>\n
However, EFF leader Julius Malema said that while he remains critical of the judiciary, there is no substantial evidence implicating any judge in police corruption.<\/p>\n
He then challenged Skosana to indicate who should be called, causing the meeting to turn rowdy.<\/p>\n
\u201cStop being a coward. Tell us the name of a judge.”<\/p>\n
Committee chairperson Soviet Lekganyane said that while there is no denial that there are problems within the judiciary, there is currently no evidence before the committee that warranted a specific judge being called to testify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) clashed on Wednesday over whether members of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-10258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}