NPA lifestyle audits target IDAC officials — but what about Andrea Johnson?

NPA spokesperson, Kaizer Kganyago, said his unit would perform lifestyle audits on IDAC prosecutors and investigators.

National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is pressing ahead with lifestyle audits of Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) officials but said it was unclear whether former IDAC boss Andrea Johnson can still be subjected to the process after her resignation.

NPA spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago confirmed the move while speaking to journalists at the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court, saying the audits would extend beyond IDAC to senior NPA management.

“We have indicated, when we had a press conference with the minister, that we are going to do a reset at IDAC, and one of the things that we are doing as part of the reset is lifestyle audits,” Kganyago said.

This comes after IDAC was accused of running a rogue element, conducting improper and politically influence d prosecutions and fabricating or altering evidence.

He said the exercise would cover IDAC prosecutors and investigators, as well as members of the NPA’s Management Committee and Executive Committee.

“We are going to have this lifestyle audit done on the prosecutors and the investigators at IDAC, together with the management at NPA itself, that is the MANCO and the EXCO,” he said.

Kganyago also confirmed that the NPA intends to review cases previously handled by IDAC.

The question of Johnson’s position emerged when journalists asked whether the lifestyle audit would apply to the former director, who resigned with immediate effect on July 27, 2026.

Kganyago said Johnson had already been included in the lifestyle audit of the NPA Executive Committee because she was an EXCO member when the process began.

“Therefore, unfortunately now there is a relationship between employer and employee that is no longer available, we cannot enforce that on her,” he said.

Johnson’s resignation followed intense scrutiny of IDAC’s handling of police crime-intelligence investigations before the Madlanga Commission.

At the commission, Johnson was questioned over allegations that she leaked a confidential criminal assault and intimidation docket to Major-General Feroz Khan , a Crime Intelligence boss facing corruption allegations. The commission heard that the alleged leak enabled Khan to prepare a warning statement.

Johnson invoked her constitutional right against self-incrimination when questioned about the alleged disclosure and declined to answer.