General N Khuoa

The approved selection panel was legitimate and had the final approval by General N Khuoa who had authority to approve or reject the panel or recommend amendments.

“So, I would suggest that there were legitimate panels put forward to, who I take to be the final decision maker, General N Khuoa, Support Services, who had the authority to reject the proposed panel or to accept it or to recommend amendments and changes. So, at the end of the day, she had the final say as to who constitute the panel.”

The selection panel was requested from Crime Intelligence and the panel was selected by General Khumalo and sent to Head Office for approval; General N Khuoa was Acting Deputy National Commissioner at the time and approved the panel.

“The panels are requested from Crime Intelligence, meaning these are the people that, you know, they request to be on the panels. So, it is a request from Crime Intelligence, General Khumalo, these are the people that I select for the different posts and panels and it is sent to Head Office, Human Resources and it gets approved there. So, the approval of the panel takes place there and the Acting Deputy National Commissioner at that time was General N Khuoa. She approved it.”

It is incorrect to say General Khumalo constituted the selection panel; she merely recommended it and the final approval was given by the higher authority, Lieutenant General N Khuoa.

“So, the only point I sought to make that it is not correct to say Khumalo constituted this panel, conducted interviews and ended up recommending Mrs Mokwele and suggesting that there was anything wrong with the constitution of the panel and I says so because the proposed panel, which I accept would have been put together by General Khumalo, was approved by the right authority within SAPS, which would be Lieutenant General N Khuoa in this case.”