Johannesburg – The Nationwide Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has moved to make clear the confusion relating to warrants of arrest issued in opposition to Normal Dumisani Khumalo and Main Normal Nosipho Madondo.
The confusion was sparked by a terse assertion issued by the NPA’s Investigating Directorate In opposition to Corruption (IDAC) yesterday, Thursday, 18 June 2026, wherein it dispelled “studies on the arrest of crime intelligence head”.
The terse IDAC assertion mentioned it “takes observe of the media studies on the arrest of the Head of Crime Intelligence Normal Dumisani Khumalo”.
The assertion issued by Spokesperson Henry Mamothame added: “We want to set the file straight that Normal Khumalo has not been arrested nor has anybody else from Crime Intelligence”.
After IDAC mentioned the warrants of arrest wouldn’t be carried out, legal professionals for the senior law enforcement officials complained that their purchasers’ popularity had been unfairly tarnished.
Immediately, Friday, 19 June 2026, the NPA moved to clarify that, owing to the essential work the 2 senior law enforcement officials had been concerned with, IDAC opted to droop the execution of the warrants of arrest till their task was accomplished.
Transferring to clear up the matter, NPA spokesperson Kaizer Kanyago on Friday, 19 June 2026, mentioned he “notes additional studies on mainstream media and social media following a media assertion issued by IDAC on 18 June 2026”.
Kanyago mentioned: “These additional studies are each unfaithful and speculative.”
He mentioned the IDAC can affirm that warrants of arrest had been issued in opposition to Normal Dumisani Khumalo and Main Normal Nosipho Madondo solely, and nobody else from the South African Police Service.
“The 2 people had been contacted by IDAC investigators to current themselves on the Brooklyn Police Station on 18 June 2026,” Kanyago mentioned.
“Subsequent to the communication with the 2 officers, the IDAC obtained info that the affected officers had been a part of the Justice Crime Prevention and Safety cluster group that’s assigned to organize for a nationwide safety measure earlier than and on 30 June 2026 in relation to immigration points.
“Within the curiosity of guaranteeing synergy and effectivity within the work of that group, IDAC thus determined to droop the execution of the warrants of arrest till the task of the 2 officers is accomplished.”
Kanyago mentioned the 2 officers had been subsequently contacted to now not hand themselves over previous to their arrival on the Brooklyn Police Station in Pretoria.
“Any unrelated info circulated concerning the arrest of different officers aside from the 2 is fake and ought to be handled as such,” the NPA spokesperson mentioned.
