In separate but strikingly similar statements addressed to Tebogo Bagopi, an investigator appointed by the Permanent Secretary to the President (PSP), Sebuweng Mukani and Mpho Molokwane say they have been left “in the dark” about why they were targeted in what appears to be an internal fallout following the sensitive probe into the national airline. Mukani, a long-serving officer who joined the agency in 2008, said her troubles began in March 2024 when she was told by her senior, Paul Setlhabi, to collect a laptop package from colleagues Nozipho Modisane and Molokwane for the Director of Legal, Pulane Kgoadi.
“I switched off the surveillance cameras as per instructions from the Director-General (DG). We were always told not to work under cameras. I delivered the laptop bag to Kgoadi’s home, thinking nothing of it," she said. She explained that days later, everything changed, as on March 21, around 11 at night, police and DIS officers arrived at her home and said that they were investigating a leak and seized her phone, took her to Sebele for questioning, and later detained her at Urban Police Station. The officer said she was confused because she had done nothing wrong, stating that she was released the following evening, but the ordeal was far from over. “A few days later, I was told not to report for duty. Then I was suspended. To this day, no one has told me what I did (wrong)," she said. For Molokwane, an Assistant Intelligence Officer who joined in 2019, said he, too, was caught in the same web.
