News: Mkhwanazi asks parliament to conduct surveillance on journalists

During his testimony at the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee into his allegations about corruption in the police, Mkhwanazi called on parliament to request the surveillance of journalists and called for journalists who “get it wrong” to be jailed. Mkhwanazi must be regarded with considerable circumspection.

A report in News24 report on 9 October 2025 details Mkhwanazi’s disregard for the essential right to free speech with respect to journalists. 

The proposal that journalists be jailed for “getting it wrong” is creepy and has to raise some questions about his explosive allegations being made now. If journalists were not getting the right facts and he knew that, why didn’t he come forward at the time?

Life as we know it has ground to halt over Mkhwanazi: local TV channels have stopped doing any other work virtually because they can stream the hearing live ad infinitum.  

The full News24 piece can be found here.

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