By Lesedi Sibiya-Diplomatic Insider

Leader and MP of the National Coloured Congress, Fadiel Adams, had told the Commission of Inquiry into Criminality or otherwise known as the Madlanga Commission that his referral to the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) had contained allegations concerning the Political Killings Task Team, which contradicts evidence given by former head of IDAC, Andrea Johnson.

In Johnson’s testimony, she told the commission that Adams’ Section 27 referral had contained no allegations regarding the task team. She had also consistently maintained that IDAC was investigating the task team, which was being managed by crime intelligence head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo.

Adams, who had been the primary complainant in the corruption investigation which had involved Khumalo, had disputed that account. He stated that the affidavit had raised concerns involving promotions from officers attached to the task team and had also alleged that crime intelligence funds had been used for its operations.

The affidavit presented by Johnson as the referral made by Adams however did not contain these allegations. This prompted the commissioners to question whether or not the document had been fabricated or at the very least altered.

Adams also informed the commission that he had opened a criminal case against IDAC and the chief investigator Dylan Perumal, regarding the mishandling of the investigation which has collapsed since.

Adams also admitted that he misled suspended Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu, when he had claimed that the corruption dockets opened against senior crime intelligence officials had been intercepted and that the police had interfered in those investigations.

Adams had opened cases in Cape Town on October 29, 2025, as well as other cases in Gauteng on October 31. He had emailed Mchunu the following day saying that these cases were intercepted in both provinces.

Commission Evidence Leader Lee Seegals-Ncube had challenged Adams as to why he had made the allegation without verifying with the relevant police station. Adams had attributed the information given to him by the late Major-General Andre Lincoln who had previously worked under Nelson Mandela’s security detail.

“As a lifelong friend, brother and comrade of General Lincoln, and as someone who Andre publicly identified as his mentor, I feel compelled to place the following on record,” said Adams as he expressed that Lincoln had encouraged him to open a criminal case against senior crime intelligence officials.