{"id":96509,"date":"2026-03-18T18:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mkhwanazi-cites-prejudice-in-mps-evidence-handling"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:06:00","slug":"mkhwanazi-cites-prejudice-in-mps-evidence-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mkhwanazi-cites-prejudice-in-mps-evidence-handling","title":{"rendered":"Mkhwanazi Cites Prejudice in MPs&#8217; Evidence Handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has voiced his concerns about how members of Parliament (MPs) have handled evidence presented to them before the ad hoc committee probing police corruption.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, he said members of the ad hoc committee have prejudged many aspects during the last six months of the hearings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a Parliamentarian, so it might be wrong for me to judge proceedings. Indeed, chairperson, I\u2019ve been observing, being worried at times by the posture and the attitude that I see from some of the members of Parliament who seem to prejudge things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy understanding is that the committee\u2019s job is to listen to evidence, probe and not make conclusions that certain things are wrong, or certain individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did, however, commend the committee for its hard work and the long hours MPs have put in the hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Mkhwanazi returned to the ad hoc committee to give his closing evidence and to respond to allegations against him.<\/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. KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has voiced his concerns about how members of Parliament (MPs) have handled evidence presented to them before the ad hoc committee probing police corruption. On Wednesday, he said members of the ad hoc committee have prejudged many aspects during the last six months of the hearings. \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":96508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-96509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mkhwanazi Cites Prejudice in MPs&#039; Evidence Handling - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has voiced his concerns about how members of Parliament (MPs) have ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/mkhwanazi-cites-prejudice-in-mps-evidence-handling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mkhwanazi Cites Prejudice in MPs&#039; 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