Investigator Mlambo

ADV JOHNSON was told by investigator Mlambo, who brought the summons, that Lieutenant General Jacob was precluded from returning to his post, which justified appointing Lieutenant General Khumalo instead.

“I see on the face of the summons, it is Investigator Mlambo... And that is why there have to be this deviation of an appointment of Lieutenant General Khumalo.”

ADV JOHNSON could not say that Investigator Mlambo was the only person presenting the summons, but Mlambo was the one who briefed him on all the details.

“But I can't say that he was the only person, he came with the summons, and that he was the one who briefed me on all the details by himself.”

ADV JOHNSON suggested that either Mr Perumal or Mr Padayachee would have briefed him jointly with Investigator Mlambo regarding the summons and details.

“I would expect that that detail I got either from Mr Perumal or from Mr Padayachee, who were the leading investigators.”

Investigator Mlambo carried out mostly administrative functions while also conducting some senior investigative duties.

“Mr Mlambo did carry out a bit more of the administrative function, and we cannot impute this to him.”

ADV JOHNSON acknowledged Investigator Mlambo was described as a senior investigator in documents but mainly performed administrative duties and some investigative work.

“On these documents. So what they would do is when there were summons, they gave it to a central point. That was his duty, but he had other investigative duties where he took statements, engaged with witnesses and so on in the legs of the investigation... he is a senior investigator with senior investigative duties that he does conduct, has conducted and as part of the tasking of everything else in the team.”

ADV JOHNSON clarified if he gave the impression Investigator Mlambo was only an administrative person, that was incorrect.

“If I created the impression that he was an admin person with the rank of senior investigator, that is incorrect.”

The summons documents were drafted by investigators including Mr Perumal, Mr Padayachee and possibly Mr Mantsha, with Investigator Mlambo also assigned inquiries.

“These would have been drafted by an investigator. It could have been Mr Perumal or Mr Padayachee. ... And or perhaps Mr Mantsha. ... At the bottom of 936, it does say at the bottom there was also one of the investigators assigned was Investigator Mlambo.”

Advocate Manilall, Ramsamy, Hlatshwayo, Perumal, Padayachee, Wessels, Mlambo, Eals, and Mbalo were part of the investigation team at different stages.

“It is on my document that it is Manilall, Ramsamy, Hlatshwayo, Perumal, Padayachee, Wessels, Mr Mlambo, Mr Eals, and Mr Mbalo.”