IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE
THE little girl peered through a window of the courthouse in rural Umzinto, KwaZulu-Natal, entranced by the serious-looking men in black gowns going about very serious-looking business. And that was it. Six-year-old Andrea Johnson was hooked.
“I told my dad I wanted to be the person in that gown,” she says.
“He told me, ‘That’s a public prosecutor’, and that was it. I haven’t had a change of heart since.”
Forty-five years later, advocate Andrea Johnson (51) is the head of the National Prosecuting Authority’s Investigating Directorate (ID) – the unit tasked with investigating and prosecuting state capture-related cases.
President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed her earlier this year to replace advocate Hermione Cronje, who
