Overview
- Violence monitor Mary De Haas refused to disclose confidential sources to Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee and cautioned she may halt her testimony.
- Committee chair Lesetja Lekganyane warned that uncorroborated material could be set aside, with several MPs urging closed sessions or confidentiality protocols.
- UKZN clarified that De Haas is neither an employee nor a professor and that her current link to the university is an honorary research fellowship.
- Under questioning, De Haas confirmed she does not hold a doctorate, received an honorary doctorate from Rhodes University, and retired from the then University of Natal in 2002.
- The hearings probe alleged criminal infiltration of police structures and the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team by suspended minister Senzo Mchunu, with KZN Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi also questioning De Haas’s role.