{"id":92719,"date":"2025-11-10T17:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ad-hoc-committee-raises-concerns-over-witness-safety"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:59:11","slug":"ad-hoc-committee-raises-concerns-over-witness-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/ad-hoc-committee-raises-concerns-over-witness-safety","title":{"rendered":"Ad Hoc Committee Raises Concerns Over Witness Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Some members of Parliament&#8217;s Ad Hoc Committee investigating police corruption have raised concerns over the safety of some witnesses, especially on the parliamentary precinct.<\/p>\n<p>This follows last week&#8217;s appearance of Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) head, Anthea Johnson, who told the committee that she received death threats.<\/p>\n<p>IDAC\u2019s Head of Operations, Matthews Sesoko, was also kidnapped and robbed of his devices on Friday, according to the corruption fighting unit.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Dianne Kohler Barnard raised the issue during Monday&#8217;s meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee which was discussing its interim report on work completed so far and its programme for witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we need to focus on the safety of our witnesses within the Parliamentary precinct. I&#8217;m hoping very much that as a committee you are working with the parliamentary protection services considering the death threat against advocate Johnson and of course Sesoko as the head investigator had been kidnapped and beaten up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Some members of Parliament&#8217;s Ad Hoc Committee investigating police corruption have raised concerns over the safety of some witnesses, especially on the parliamentary precinct. This follows last week&#8217;s appearance of Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) head, Anthea Johnson, who told the committee that she received death threats. 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