Madlanga Commission hears about attempts to divide team probing Armand Swart murder

Pretoria
Orrin Singh

Orrin Singh

22 October 2025 | 9:49

Testifying partially in-camera before the Madlanga Commission, Witness B said one of her colleagues received a call from an informer who claimed she had been bribed.

Madlanga Commission hears about attempts to divide team probing Armand Swart murder

Retired Constitutional Court Judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga leads the Commission of Inquiry into criminality, political inteference and corruption in South Africa's criminal justice system. Picture: Sphamandla Dlamini/EWN

One of the investigating officers in the murder case of Vereeniging engineer, Armand Swart, has revealed how people were trying to create division within the investigation team.

Testifying partially in-camera before the Madlanga Commission, Witness B said that one of her colleagues received a call from an informer who claimed she had been bribed.

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This was in relation to bail granted to the accused arrested in connection with Swart’s murder.

Among those arrested was multi-millionaire, Katiso "KT" Molefe, and Johannesburg Central detective, Michael Pule Tau.

She said the informer told her colleague she was paid R1.2 million to ensure the accused got bail.

"It’s easy to believe such a person when he says, 'Tomorrow this person is going to get bail' and the person gets bail. Now he tells my colleague that I’ve been paid R1.2 million, so he was supposed to believe that, but fortunately, he knows me better than that."

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