Overview
- Advocate Matthew Chaskalson told the commission that Witness F has been hospitalised, with a medical note indicating no availability until at least 25 February.
- Legal teams proposed 16 March as the next mutually open date, which is currently the commission’s last scheduled day.
- The commission will proceed on Wednesday with a different witness while arrangements for Witness F’s appearance remain unresolved.
- Witness F recently withdrew an urgent High Court application that sought to block his testimony and suppress WhatsApp messages seized from his phone.
- An earlier bid to interdict his appearance was dismissed by Chair Judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga; Witness F is a partially protected Gauteng organised crime officer linked in prior hearings to contested handling of sensitive information.