Drushantha Ramsamy was expected back at the Madlanga Commission on Tuesday, 4 August, but the day opened with Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Peter Serunye instead, with no explanation given for her absence. Serunye told the commission the arrest of Crime Intelligence head Lieutenant General Dumisani Khumalo and 6 others was premature, carried out before…
IDAC prosecutor Drushantha Ramsamy testified at the Madlanga Commission on 30 July 2026 and played a recording of a 22 July phone call in which former IDAC head Andrea Johnson allegedly told her to leave the country if she was called to testify. Ramsamy also testified that the section 27 affidavit shown to the commission…
• Andrea Johnson completed her final 3 days of testimony at the Madlanga Commission on 29 July 2026, with the evidence leaving the Commission to draw adverse inferences about her conduct. • While media coverage focused on WhatsApp messages between Johnson and Crime Intelligence Major General Feroz Khan, the more significant evidence concerned 2 competing…
On the third day of her testimony before the Madlanga Commission, Andrea Johnson, head of IDAC, withdrew and apologised for calling Brigadier Dineo Mokwele’s appointment a “token appointment,” after Commissioner Sandile Khumalo showed the commission that Mokwele holds a degree in industrial engineering, a diploma in mechatronics, and close to a dozen further certificates. Johnson…
On the second day of her testimony before the Madlanga Commission, Andrea Johnson, head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), conceded that her own unit solicited the section 27 affidavit that later became the legal basis for prosecuting Lieutenant General Dumisani Khumalo. Under questioning from Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, she admitted applying the wrong legal…
Andrea Johnson, head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), testified before the Madlanga Commission on 21 July 2026, more than a week after a medical certificate that Justice Madlanga described as containing almost no useful information kept her away. Under cross-examination, Johnson conceded a line in her own sworn statement, that she had no…
Warrant Officer Mbongeleni Felix Mpangase told the Madlanga Commission on 17 July 2026 that he had never worked a container drug bust before being called in on 22 June 2021. Under cross-examination he confirmed a SAP13 register entry that Chairperson Madlanga described as false and made knowing it to be false, could not account for…
IDAC investigator Brian Padayachee returned to the Madlanga Commission on Thursday 16 July 2026 for a 3rd day of testimony, in a session running over 11 hours. Commission chair Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga personally cross-examined Padayachee on whether the case against Lieutenant General Dumisani Khumalo and 6 co-accused had any legal basis, and Padayachee conceded that…
Suliman Carrim’s lawyers handed the Madlanga Commission a doctor’s note on 14 July 2026, the same day two independent whistleblowers placed him at a Western Cape shopping centre. Evidence leader Matthew Chaskalson told the commission on 15 July that the note explains Carrim’s absence but not 2 months of silence on a formal document request….
IDAC senior investigator Brian Padayachee told the Madlanga Commission he never saw the section 27 referral affidavit, the document meant to give IDAC legal grounds to investigate Lieutenant General Dumisani Khumalo, until months after the arrests had already happened. The chair of the commission described the reasoning behind the investigation as a quantum leap in…
