Des Erasmus
Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) head Andrea Johnson has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa and National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Andy Mothibi to release her from office within 24 hours.
Johnson asked that the three-month notice period contained in her contract be waived, according to a letter sent over the weekend addressed to Ramaphosa and Mothibi, which Inside Politics has seen.
“Your Excellency and NDPP, I am humbly requesting you to consider my application for resignation. Whilst my contract requires a three-month notice period, I would request both your considerations of an immediate release from office, thereby waiving the notice period,” she wrote.
“This in effect would mean that, by agreement, I vacate my office within 24 hours.”
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago told Inside Politics that Mothibi had received the letter and was “processing it”.
Johnson said the past five months had been particularly difficult and
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