By Johnathan Paoli
National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shamila Batohi faced intense questioning from Parliament during a heated sitting of its ad-hoc committee on Tuesday night, as MPs pressed her on issues ranging from corruption, internal discipline, and political interference.
Also under scrutiny was the controversial arrest of Crime Intelligence boss Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo.
The most contentious issue revolved around the Independent Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC)’s handling of the Khumalo case and its overlap with the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).
Khumalo and several of his colleagues were arrested earlier this year for allegedly appointing an unqualified civilian to a senior post within the unit.
African National Congress (ANC) MP Xola Nqola asked if a recruitment process could ever justifiably become a criminal matter.
Batohi replied that such a determination depended entirely on the evidence, stressing that IDAC acted on a formal referral and that its investigators did not
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