Adams’s truthfulness will be tested by Parly or Commission: Baloyi

Madlanga Commission Commissioner Sesi Baloyi has put it to National Coloured Congress Member of Parliament Fadiel Adams that either Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee or the Commission would have to conclude that he lied under oath over his contradictory testimony about his interactions with the Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI).

During his appearance before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee, Adams testified that IGI Imtiaz Fazel had personally contacted him about his complaint concerning Crime Intelligence officials.

MADLANGA COMMISSION | “How could you possibly mistake a call from such an important person?” Commissioner Baloyi asks Fadiel Adams, suggesting that he either misled Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee or the commission under oath. pic.twitter.com/sLhoS6Fq8C — SABC News (@SABCNews) August 21, 2026 However, in a statement before the Commission, Adams said he had been contacted by a staff member from the IGI’s office and not by Fazel himself.

Commissioner Baloyi questions Adams’ explanation, highlighting the seriousness of the contradiction.

She suggests that either his evidence before the Ad Hoc Committee or his evidence before the Commission was false.

Commissioner Sesi Baloyi asks, “One of these two institutions must hold you to have lied under oath.

You accept that?” Adams responds, “What I do accept, Commissioner, is that I made a mistake in front of the ad hoc committee, and I’m here admitting to the mistake and owning up to it and telling you that this is the correct version.

There’s nothing in it for me to say anything like that.

I made a genuine, stupid, sloppy mistake, and I own it.” Video | Madlanga Commission | Adams disputes affidavit put to him – Canny Maphanga weighs in Livestream: