Referred to as: Brigadier Petle · Petle
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Mr Bateman received a voice recording and pictures of an affidavit from Brigadier Petle of the South African Police Service in July 2018, and sent this information to Johnson on the same day, 3 July 2018.
“In July 2018 , a voice recording and pictures of an affidavit deposed to by Brigadier Petle of the South African Police Service were sent to me ... I received the information and sent it to Johnson on the same day, 3 July 2018 .”
There was an issue between Khan and Petle mentioned in the affidavit that could only have come from the affidavit itself.
“there was an issue between Khan and Petle . That information could have only come from the affidavit itself”
On 31 January 2025, COL ROELOFSE retired from the South African Police Service and noted that they were unable to secure the appointment of a prosecutor to consider complaints against General Khan and Advocate Johnson, which he considered as defeating the ends of justice.
“On 31 January 2025 , I retired from the South African Police Service . At that stage , we were unable to secure the appointment of a prosecutor to consider both Brigadier Petle criminal complaint against General Khan and the allegations against Advocate Johnson of what I considered to be defeating the ends justice”
The Colonel received an email with subject 'Petle Complaint' containing attachments including an audio file recording of General Khan and documents relating to a criminal complaint against General Khan by Brigadier Petle.
“The subject header of the email was Petle Complaint. The email had photo attachments and an audio file. The email contained photographs of the A1 statement of Brigadier Petle, at the time a Crime Intelligence officer, in a criminal complaint by her against General Khan for assault common, intimidation as well as a J88 medical report and an audio recording of General Khan taken at the time of the alleged incident. The alleged incident took place on 26 June 018 and the A1 was commissioned on the same day at Silverton police station and the case opened under Silverton CAS number 422/06/2018.”
Captain McLean received from Brigadier Petle her own statement, a statement of the A1 in a docket of Silverton 422/05/2018, a J88, an email, and a recording related to an assault case.
“She provided us with a statement, her own statement, a statement of the A 1 in a docket of Silverton 422/05/2018, and the J88. And the email. And also the recording. It is a recording that was ... done by the complainant, Brigadier Petle, of the assault case, and that was also given to the Colonel.”
Brigadier Petle confirmed that an audio recording was part of the assault case incident.
“She confirmed that that recording was a recording of a part of the incident, a portion of the incident.”
The audio recording captured a conversation between Brigadier Petle and Major General Khan where Khan insisted on being addressed as General and disciplined Petle for calling him Khan, questioning her about her whereabouts and time she started work on that morning.
“" Brig Petla: Open. Maj-Gen Khan: Morning. Brig Petla: Mmm. Maj-Gen Khan: How are you? Brig Petla: Good, yourself? Can you close the door? Maj-Gen Khan: No, I do not want to talk with the door closed. Brig Petla: Why? Maj-Gen Khan: I have got my reasons. ... Maj-Gen Khan: I am not your Khan, I am General. Do not address me as Khan. That is the last time you call me Khan. ... You call me General. You do not call me Khan. I am not your friend, I am your commander. Do not address me as Khan. Am I clear to you? ... Where were you this morning? ... I am here from 7.30. Why were you not at work? ... What time did you start work? ... The penis very powerful. You have lots of issues at the moment. You want me to add to them? Brigadier, you want me to add to your issues? I need to know where were you. I need answers from you. ... Have I been rude to you? Why are you rude to me? Do I call you Catherin? Lebo? I have never called you anything but Brigadier.”
Brigadier Petle was assaulted with a pen resulting in injuries including marks consistent with being poked by a pen as recorded in a J88 form, with injuries also noted on the chest.
“The general spoke about a pen. And if I look at the J 88 and what Brigadier Petle is saying, it is more about the pen. Because he was doing this. And the J 88 also speaks about injuries on the chest. It just shows that there is marks. Like if somebody press you with a pen, that is the type of injuries it shows on the J 88.”
Brigadier Petle had injuries including swelling on the upper part of the left forearm, superficial bruises on the facial left, and multiple small bruises that were documented in the J88 report.
“Page 33, I think it says one swelling on the upper part of the middle left forearm. ... The second one, bruises superficial on facial left. And then three, four multiples small bruises on, I cannot read the rest.”