IDAC’s survival: CI, Zondo archives could lie at the heart of assault

Afternoon Drive with John Maytham · 16 July 2026 · 8m

Speaker 1: I was sent earlier today WhatsApp by somebody I know who knows stuff, and it Speaker 1: told me that retired judge Takerlani Joseph Rowlinger, the IDAK oversight judge, is set to Speaker 1: brief the media on Sunday, and my friend says, my bet is that it is Speaker 1: going to announce Andrea Johnson's resignation as the head of IDAK Independent Directorate, you know, Speaker 1: Independent Directorate against Crime or something. Peterdaty is News twenty fours assistant editor who has Speaker 1: editorialized about Andrea Johnson and IDAK on the site today. Peter, good afternoon, Good afternoon, Speaker 1: John. Speaker 2: HIDAK is the Directorate against Corruption Corruption. Speaker 1: There we go, crime, corruption, same thing. Both begin with see as do other words Speaker 1: that I'm allowed to say on the radio. Do you do you think my friend's Speaker 1: bet might be on the mark at this news conference by the IDAC presiding judge Speaker 1: is overseeing judges to say Andrew Johnson's taking a leave of absence or something like Speaker 1: that. Speaker 2: John, I have no idea, to be honest. The judge was only recently appointed, so Speaker 2: I mean it's early days for that position to get to grips with what's going Speaker 2: on. And I would surmise that if an overside judge like that, like we have Speaker 2: intelligence, we inspect the general of intelligence, it would take a little while to get Speaker 2: underneath the hood as it were. Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So Andrew Johnson, she's in hospital. She okay, I don't know what to Speaker 1: think. It's like so much to do with law enforcement, justice, intelligence. I don't know

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