By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider 

MP of the National Coloured Congress, Fadiel Adams, admitted to the Madlanga Commission of inquiry that he did receive correspondence from the commission to testify and that he had misled them when he stated that he did not receive a summons for 3 October 2025.

Adams had briefly appeared in front of the commission however his testimony was postponed due to late submission. His argument for this late submission was that he had not received any correspondence whatsoever. Chairperson of the commission, Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga had presented Adams with a Rule 3 notice which was sent to him on 3 October 2025.

In the correspondence sent to Adams the commission addressed him concerning allegations made against him by KwaZulu-Natal commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. 

In Mkhwanazi’s testimony in September 2025, he informed the commission that had unauthorised access to crime intelligence information and had recklessly utilized this information to pursue charges against members of Political Killings Task Team (PKTT). Madlanga had questioned Adams about his testimony that he had only received the Rule 3 correspondence three months ago. 

He stated that Adams responded to the email and even made a request to testify 72 hours after the head of crime intelligence Dumisani Khumalo. “If you responded to the commission’s Rule 3 notice only 11 days after it was sent to you, your response being on 14 October, you were not truthful when you said you had not received or you only saw the email communication three months ago” said Madlanga.

Adams had stated that he was out of the province when he had initially received the email and emphasised the importance of testifying after Khumalo as he had accused him of fraud and corruption within crime intelligence.

 “I sat here on the 11th and you told me that I wasn’t taking the commission seriously. It’s something that I disagree with even now,” said Adams. “However, I will take full responsibility for all the confusion and all the delay regarding the emails that came. Parliament will know and they can deny it again so I can prove it again, that all email correspondence, even from the police portfolio, is sent to my administrator…because my laptop does not respond 50% of the time” said Adams. 

“So for this, I apologise profusely to you. I will not run from this” he said. Madlanga continued to press on whether he had been untruthful when he said he saw the Rule 3 for the first time three months ago.

“Yes, chairperson, now that I have all my emails, even my response in front of me, yes, the information I submitted was wrong” responded Adams.

“Even if you were to attempt to suggest not to have seen the emails of October 2025, this would’ve reminded you that there were emails in October 2025.” said Madlanga after he told Adams that the commission had been sending him emails since April 2026. 

Madlanga then continued to press Adams about Parliament’s statement disputing that he had any technical problems with Adam’s laptop, and said that parliament has specifically issued three devices in order to avoid communication problems.