Lieutenant General Sentumule

Advocate Johnson instructed to change the letter request from Major General Khumalo to Lieutenant General Jacobs and to shred the initial letter as it was never sent to Khumalo.

“I had to change the letter request from Major General Khumalo to Lieutenant General Jacobs. I sent Advocate Johnson a WhatsApp message... Her response was that I must shred the letter because it was not going to Lieutenant General Jacobs. She said she had written to Divisional Commissioner Detective Services, Lieutenant General Sentumule.”

Advocate Johnson refused to send the letter to Lieutenant General Jacobs and instead told to shred the letter, claiming it had been redirected to Divisional Commissioner Sentumule.

“Not going to Jacobs. She said shred the letter. I wrote to Div Com on Friday. She will revert today.”

Advocate Johnson provided instructions that the dockets must be photocopied immediately and originals handed to her personal assistant.

“She also gave me an instruction that the dockets must be copied immediately and the originals must be handed to her personal assistant.”

The request for dockets via letter to Major General Khumalo was never sent because Khumalo indicated the dockets were not with him or under his control, and the letter was subsequently addressed to Lieutenant General Sentumule instead.

“Advocate Johnson testified that we sent the letter requesting the dockets to Major General Khumalo and that he had indicated that the dockets were not with him or were not his. As stated above, the letter was never sent to Major General Khumalo and Advocate Johnson knew that because she told me to shred the letter. Advocate Johnson told me that the letter had been changed and addressed to General Sentumule.”

The process of requesting and collecting dockets was complicated by internal office commotion and changes in official letter addressees, resulting in Advocate Johnson instructing shredding and changing letters instead of sending original requests to Major General Khumalo or Lieutenant General Jacobs.

“There was a lot of commotion on that day... I had to change the letter request from Major General Khumalo to Lieutenant General Jacobs... Her response was that I must shred the letter because it was not going to Lieutenant General Jacobs. She said she had written to Divisional Commissioner Detective Services, Lieutenant General Sentumule... Advocate Johnson told me to ask Mr Raphesu to call Colonel Phillips and ask if Lieutenant General Sentumule had asked Colonel Phillips to hand the dockets over.”