Political Task Team

Advocate Johnson requested documentary files and applications for promotions regarding commanders and members of the PKTT via Section 28 summons beyond the scope of Mr Adams' original complaint.

“you ask in the same summons for documentary files and applications for promotions and Commanders and members of the Political Task Teams through deviation. According to you, the PKTTT did not feature anywhere. So once again, that is way beyond the scope of the original complaint by Mr Adams.”

Advocate Manilall signed a Section 28 summons under the CAS number relating to the Mokwele appointment, requesting identities and travel documents of PKTT members who arrested Mr Adams.

“That is the section 28 summons signed by Advocate Manilall, which wanted the identities and certified travel documents of PKTTT members who went to arrest Mr Adams, and he does so under the CAS number relating to the Mokwele appointment.”

IDAC's decisions and Section 28 summonses targeting SAPS Generals and the PKTT constituted a concerted effort to discredit or prejudice them.

“In light of at least the three that I have named, logic dictates that it was a concerted effort to either discredit or somehow prejudice them.”

Advocate Manilall claimed the Section 28 summons was issued to determine if Lieutenant General Khumalo breached bail conditions by authorizing PKTT members to arrest Mr Adams, who was a state witness.

“the purpose behind it from the prosecutor was to determine whether someone else within the PKTT approved those trips, that is fine, and that if it was in fact General Khumalo who authorized those trips, then he was sending people to deal with Adams, and it could have a potential of interfering with the bail condition.”

Advocate Manilall's explanation for issuing the Section 28 summons was false because PKTT members were under no bail condition preventing them from dealing with witnesses or arresting Mr Adams.

“I want to say if that is the explanation he gave you it is a false explanation. Those individual members and anyone else in the world was under no bail condition that they could not, that is one reason, that they could not deal with any witnesses. There was nothing like that.”

IDAC prosecutors misused bail conditions against General Khumalo to insulate Mr Adams from legitimate arrest or investigation by the PKTT.

“So you are brandishing that condition over General Khumalo to say whatever wrong he commits, you dare not touch him, because he is my witness and if you do, you will be breaching a bail condition.”