Advocate Andrea Johnson requests to be released from office

Investigating Directorate Against Corruption head, advocate Andrea Johnson following her recent testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. Advocate Andrea Johnson, head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, has asked to be released from office. Johnson, a career prosecutor with three decades of service, made the request in a letter to the national director of public prosecutions, copied to President Cyril Ramaphosa.

She asked to be let go within 24 hours, waiving the three-month notice period in her contract. NPA spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago confirmed to IOL that the letter had been received. “The NDPP has received the letter and he is processing it,” Kganyago said.

Johnson’s request comes hot on the heels of her evidence at the Madlanga Commission this week. In her letter, she tied her decision directly to the fallout from IDAC’s cases against Crime Intelligence officials. “The recent five months or so have been challenging and the attacks on both my person and official capacity have been unprecedented,” she said. “Much of the attacks revolve and arise out of the cases IDAC has conducted against officials of Crime Intelligence.” She said the attacks had brought negative attention not only to her, but to IDAC and the NPA.