the informer

Warrant Officer Phakula promised to assist to arrange a meeting with the informer and to make the informer available to General Khan, but the promise was never fulfilled as he never took it further and had no further interaction with the informer.

“No, we never took it further, and he never called me back again after this, and I never communicated with him. So, he never saw the informer after this.”

Warrant Officer Phakula acknowledges that he assumed the informer would agree to speak to General Khan, despite not knowing the informer or Mashaba personally at the time.

“I was going to talk to Mashaba, and then I would have taken it from there.”

Warrant Officer Phakula accepted that exposing the informer to General Khan could have put the informer's life at risk because it was known that General Khan was involved in drug trafficking.

“I accept that.”