The NPA has decided to prosecute former Hawks head Mthandazo Ntlemeza’s daughter, Anele Ntlemeza, a cluster co-ordinator at SAPS Crime Intelligence in Polokwane, with crimen injuria and intimidation after she threatened to kill a colleague who had opened a case against her father, says a Daily Maverick report.

She also threatened forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan. The NPA decision followed a threatening phone call to colleague Captain Boitumelo Ramahlaha, soon after her father had lost an application in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) in 2016 in which he had hoped to indict then Minister of Police, Fikile Mbalula, from removing him as head of the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation.

Anele Ntlemeza threatened O’Sullivan after Ramahlaha, who was suspended after he lodged the charges, had asked for his help in dealing with the threats.

After O’Sullivan had called Ntlemeza about the matter she messaged him with, ‘Hahaha. Like I give a fuck. Oops maybe you need one. U look like u could use some. Let’s see who goes to jail first, u or me.’ She added: ‘U think u the only one who can dish out threats u foolish kwerekwere. Now tell your client that he must harass my family again, he wil never see light of day’ (sic). She also described O’Sullivan as ‘an old hag’ who would be deported from South Africa and that she hoped he would be ‘executed’ when he arrived back in his ‘home country’.

The DM report adds that Ramahlaha had opened cases against Mthandazo Ntlemeza on charges of corruption and defeating the ends of justice after he (Ramahlaha) claimed that a docket relating to alleged corruption by another officer, Thomas Rallele, ‘went missing’.

Full Daily Maverick report