Head, Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) · Pretoria
Summoned · testimony postponed
The head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC), the National Prosecuting Authority's specialist anti-corruption body. She was scheduled to testify before the Madlanga Commission on 13 July 2026 (Day 138) to answer whistleblower evidence that, as an NPA prosecutor in 2018, she interfered in an assault case against suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Major-General Feroz Khan by causing the police docket to be leaked to him before he was charged. Her testimony was postponed after her counsel said she had been rushed to hospital that morning; chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga dismissed her medical certificate as 'useless', and President Cyril Ramaphosa, who appointed her, said her conduct would be scrutinised. She has not yet answered the allegations before the commission and is presumed innocent.
Andrea JohnsonAdvocate Andrea JohnsonIDACInvestigating Directorate Against CorruptionNPAMadlanga Commission
This profile summarises testimony and evidence given on the public record before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. It restates allegations as presented at the hearings and is not a finding of guilt, liability, or wrongdoing by any person.
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Their role
What the record says
Alleged 2018 interference in an assault case against Feroz Khan
Retired Hawks Colonel Kobus Roelofse testified (Day 137, 10 July 2026) that Johnson, then an NPA prosecutor, caused the contents of a police docket - arising from Brigadier Leonora Phetlhe's complaint that Khan assaulted her with a pen at Crime Intelligence headquarters in 2018 - to be emailed to a Crime Intelligence officer and handed to Khan before he had given his warning statement, allegedly letting him tailor his account. These are untested allegations; Johnson is presumed innocent and has not answered them before the commission.
Testimony postponed; medical certificate dismissed as 'useless'
Summoned to testify on 13 July 2026, Johnson did not appear; her counsel said she had been rushed to hospital with undisclosed health issues. Chairperson Madlanga said the medical certificate 'give[s] no information whatsoever' and set no new date. Her no-show drew presidential scrutiny from Cyril Ramaphosa, who appointed her.
Named in an alleged 'Khan-IDAC cabal' (denied by IDAC)
MK Party MP Vusi Shongwe alleged an 'Indian cabal' linking Johnson, senior investigator Suneel Bellochun, Feroz Khan and IDAC investigator Brian Padayachee. Padayachee rejected the claim at the commission. The allegation is untested.