Overview
- Deputy director Adv Peter Serunye told the Madlanga commission he now believes he was "set up" in the Crime Intelligence investigation that led to high‑profile arrests.
- Serunye said he initially dismissed allegations by KwaZulu‑Natal police commissioner Lt‑Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi but changed his view after hearing witnesses including former Idac head Adv Andrea Johnson.
- He named junior prosecutor Adv Joy Hlatshwayo as another person who may have been unwittingly drawn into the case and said he regrets allowing the matter to proceed.
- Serunye described the formal approval process used by Idac, saying deputy directors prepared memoranda proposing investigations and prosecution teams while Andrea Johnson made handwritten notes but did not pick specific prosecutors.
- The Madlanga commission is now probing whether those approval practices misled prosecutors and produced cases that lacked a proper legal foundation, a line of inquiry that could have reputational and legal consequences for Idac and the prosecutors involved.