The reporting structure of IDAC includes the Investigating Director (Advocate Andrea Johnson) at the top, with Head of Investigations and Operations (Mr Matthew Sesoko) reporting directly to the ID, alongside four Deputy Directors who also report to the ID.
“The Investigating Director, Advocate Andrea Johnson, heads the unit. The Head of Investigations and Operations, the position is held by Mr Matthew Sesoko. He sits at the same level as Deputy Directors and reports directly to the Investigating Director.”
Mr. Raphesu spoke to Mr. O'Sullivan, who provided him with a letter (unclear if from or to the Minister) and a report including CPB details about Brigadier Mokwele; details were sent via email already to Andrea Johnson on 5 December 2025.
“he gave me a letter . I am not sure whether it was the letter to the Minister or from the Minister ... He also provided me with a report ... On that report ... there is something that you call CPB ... So those details , he provided them via email ... that information was sent to Andrea Johnson on the 5th ... of December 2025 already”
Advocate Andrea Johnson represents the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), a unit within National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
“I am currently employed as the Investigating Director and Head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption , IDAC , a unit within the National Prosecuting Authority , NPA”
Advocate Andrea Johnson was appointed to her position as Investigating Director by President Cyril Ramaphosa effective from 1 March 2022 under the NPA Act.
“I was appointed to this position by President Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa with effect from 1 March 022 in terms of section 13 ( 1 ) ( b ) of the NPA Act”
Advocate Andrea Johnson is the Head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) and is the appropriate person to engage on all matters pertaining to IDAC, despite being relieved of duties related to the Khumalo arrest matter.
“advocate Andrea Johnson in her capacity of Investigating Director of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, IDAC”
No documents have been served to the Commission indicating that Advocate Johnson is not responsible for certain aspects of IDAC as of 18 June.
“We do not have, or neither have we been served, with any document that informs the Commission that there are certain aspects of IDAC that Advocate Johnson is not responsible for, as at the 18th of June”
Measures had been put in place to take care of Advocate Andrea Johnson and her family, and her colleagues, including the prosecutor Chabalala, investigator Perumal Padayachee and investigator Belochana.
“the measures had been put in place to take care of me and my family , my colleagues , that were mentioned in this . One is a your guy , Chabalala is a prosecutor , Perumal Padayachee and Belochana are investigators .”
Advocate Andrea Johnson has received different notices regarding matters flowing from her statement and has been legally represented during evidence giving.
“You have been provided with notice , it might be debatable whether timeously or , but notice has been provided to you , different notices have been provided to you regarding matters flowing from your statement .”
Advocate Andrea Johnson intends to expand on issues if leave to testify is granted and has responded to a subpoena by presenting herself before the commission.
“As I indicate somewhere towards the end of this affidavit , I intend to apply for leave to testify before this Commission . If leave is so granted , I will get an opportunity to expand on the issues to which reference is made above . Now , I am not aware of your application for leave to testify , but you were served with a subpoena and you have responded to the subpoena and presented yourself .”
Advocate Andrea Johnson clarified that the chargesheet attached to her affidavit was the version as at October 2025 when the statement was deposed, not necessarily the current chargesheet, which could have been amended after June 26th arrest.
“I just want to clarify that this is what I have . And I am hoping that there is not something different before the Commission , to clarify this is what I had and what I attach .”
Advocate Andrea Johnson stated she was appointed as Investigating Director and Head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) within the National Prosecuting Authority by President Cyril Ramaphosa effective from 1 March 2022.
“I am currently employed as the Investigating Director and Head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption , IDAC , a unit within the National Prosecuting Authority , NPA , established in terms of section ( 1 ) ( A ) of the National Prosecuting Authority Act 32 of 1998 , ( the NPA Act ) . I was appointed to this position by President Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa with effect from 1 March 022 in terms of section 13 ( 1 ) ( b ) of the NPA Act .”
The documents concerning the arrest and prosecutions related to General Khumalo and others are no longer in the possession or responsibility of Advocate Andrea Johnson or IDAC Head.
“The instructions are the documents concerning the arrest and prosecutions relating to General Khumalo and others are no longer in the possession of Ms Johnson, nor is she responsible for them”
Since about 18 June, Advocate Andrea Johnson requested to be relieved of responsibility for certain matters due to a conflict of interest and personal reasons, and Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions Nicolette Bell now oversees these matters.
“since the 18th of June, or thereabout, Ms Johnson asked that she be relieved of the responsibility to deal with those matters, given what was said at some point, even about her personally”
Prosecutors from IDAC remain in charge of cases related to these documents but report to Deputy National Director Nicolette Bell, not to the Head of IDAC Andrea Johnson, who no longer leads these processes.
“the Prosecutors from IDAC remain in charge of those cases, but they do not report to the Head of IDAC ... but the instruction is that one advocate, Nicolette Bell ... is the one who is now charged with the responsibility to oversee all the matters”
Advocate Andrea Johnson was supposed to appear before the Commission but was unable due to being indisposed and recently provided a fuller medical certificate for it.
“Advocate Johnson has provided us this morning with a full, or fuller medical certificate following her treatment last week when she was due to appear”
Advocate Andrea Johnson is not available to testify today due to serious health-related issues and is being attended to by a doctor.
“Advocate Andrea Johnson ... is not able to be with us ... She had some serious health-related issues that I am not able to disclose in public and that she is being attended to”
On 4 July 2018, Major General Khan asked Witness O to provide their personal email address to a female caller named Andrea on his phone, and then requested the content of an email to be given to General Khan and then deleted.
“On 4 July 2018, I was working in my office when Major General Khan ... handed me his cell phone and requested me to give my personal email address to the person he was speaking to on the cell phone. He said the person’s name is Andrea. ... The female caller asked for my private email address and told me that once I have given the contents of the email to General Khan, I must delete the email.”
Witness O obliged the request by giving their personal email address to the caller and printed out the email received from Andrea Johnson and gave it to General Khan in a white envelope.
“I gave her my email address. She told me that once I have given the contents of the email to General Khan, I must delete the email. I thought it was a strange request, but I obliged. ... I printed the email and gave it to him. I placed it in a white envelope.”
Witness O realized the person they spoke to on the phone was Advocate Andrea Johnson, a senior prosecutor and current Head of IDAC, from the email itself, including the email address and name.
“I realize that the person I had spoken to was Advocate Andrea Johnson, who was a senior prosecutor at the time and is currently Head of the Independent Directorate of the National Prosecuting Authority, also known as IDAC. ... Her email, or her name appeared on the email.”
In 2018, General Jacobs informed Captain McLean and retired Colonel Roelofse about an incident involving Major General Feroz Khan and Advocate Andrea Johnson.
“We were approached by, actually, General Jacobs, who informed us about the Colonel, who had information regarding an incident that took place in 2018 relating to Major General Khan and Advocate Johnson.”
Colonel Roe Loofse gives context of a 2018 event involving Advocate Andrea Johnson and Major General Feroz Khan, stating previous efforts to uncover crime intelligence matters were frustrated by media pressure and interference.
“Commissioners, for context, may be I should just refer to our investigation in 2020 in terms of Crime Intelligence and the conduct that we experienced at the time, which included the using of the media to put pressure on us when we investigated this matter from Crime Intelligence. Major General Khan played a huge role in that... So that media report was then placed and there was a lot of fallout in respect of that... So I expect no less now than what we went through.”
In May 2022, in Crime Intelligence, a disclosure was made to Colonel Roe Loofse and Captain Mark McLean by a colonel and lieutenant colonel about an incident in 2018 involving Andrea Johnson and General Feroz Khan, deemed protected under the Protection Disclosure Act.
“Sometime in May 2022, a Colonel who was a captain at the time of the incident in 018, and a lieutenant Colonel when she approached us in 2022, in Crime Intelligence, approached Captain Mark McLean and me to make a disclosure which I deemed to be in terms of the Protection Disclosure Act of 26 of 2000. She informed us that in 2018, she shared an office with General Khan, who had been appointed as the Head of Operational Intelligence Support in September 2017...”
General Feroz Khan handed his cell phone to the colonel in 2018, asking her to give an email address of a person on the other end, later identified as Andrea Johnson.
“On 4 July 2018, while she was working in the office, General Khan, who was attending a meeting in the main boardroom, approached her, handed his cell phone to her and requested her to give an email address to the person on the other end of the phone. General Khan told the Colonel that the person on the other end was Andrea.”
The email from Andrea Johnson's Gmail was forwarded from Barry Bateman, a senior journalist, who sent the Petle complaint email with attachments on 3 July 2018. Colonel Roe Loofse printed and gave the envelope to General Khan but did not delete the email as requested.
“The email from Andrea Johnson's Gmail address to the Colonel's private email address was a forwarded email originating from Barry Bateman, who at the time was a senior journalist. Mr Bateman had sent the Petle complaint email with the attachment to Andrea Johnson's Gmail address on the 3rd of July 2018. The Colonel printed the email and attachments, placed them in an envelope and gave the envelope to General Khan. She did not delete the email as requested by the female caller.”
The request for the docket was confined to the Silverton Police Station's jurisdiction and there was no normal reason for the person to want to get hold of the docket.
“I t w a s t h e S i l v e r t o n C A S ? ... S o t h e y w o u l d h a v e f a l l e n u n d e r t h a t j u r i s d i c t i o n ... s h e d o e s n o t h a v e a n y r e a s o n a s t o w h y s h e w a n t s t o g e t h o l d o f t h e d o c k e t .”
Advocate Andrea Johnson, Head of Organised Crime in the NPA at the time, could have called for the docket due to her position, though no normal reason was apparent for her request.
“she p r o b a b l y w o u l d h a v e b e e n a b l e t o c a l l f o r t h e d o c k e t i n h e r c a p a c i t y w i t h i n t h e N P A a n d I t h i n k s h e w a s H e a d o f O r g a n i s e d C r i m e a t t h e t i m e”
Mr Bateman received email attachments on 3 July 2018 via WhatsApp from an undisclosed source and complied with Advocate Andrea Johnson's request for a statement, J88 and audio file on the same day.
“Mr Bateman informed us that he received the email attachments on the 3rd of July 018 via WhatsApp from a source that he was not willing to disclose ... Advoca te Andrea Johnson ... requested the information from him ... he complied with the request on the same day”
Mr Bateman had a very good relationship with Advocate Andrea Johnson going back to 2011 and saw nothing untoward about her request for information.
“Mr Bateman also stated that he had a very good relationship with Advocate Johnson going back to 2011 ... He saw nothing untoward about Johnson's request”
Mr Bateman confirmed he provided documentation and WhatsApp messages to Advocate Andrea Johnson but could not recall why the information was requested.
“he did not deny that he provided the documentation and the Whats Apps ... he confirmed it was asked by Advocate Johnson ... but he could not remember as to why it was asked from him”
Advocate Andrea Johnson specifically requested the docket from Mr Bateman, who would not have given it if not requested.
“the impression that I had during the whole conversation is that she specifically requested this docket . He would not have known giving it to her if it was not requested”
Advocate Andrea Johnson requested Mr Bateman to source the documents and provide them to her on the same day, indicating the request was initiated by her.
“she requested him to see if he can get it ... So she was supposed to source the documents and then provide it to her ... She initiates her request and asks his source to get it”
Mr Bateman did not have the information at the time of the request from Advocate Andrea Johnson but received the attachments later that day and sent them to her in the evening.
“He gets the audio recording at 11.08 ... if she requested it from him to obtain it , she did not have it at the time she made the request ... He only sends it at 6.00 in the evening”