Overview
- Retired KZN DPP Moipone Noko testified that evidence against the Cato Manor unit was overwhelming, citing staged shoot-outs, planted firearms and ballistic mismatches.
- Noko said former NDPP Shaun Abrahams was justified in authorising a racketeering certificate and in reinstating charges against Johan Booysen and unit members.
- She told the inquiry she appeared on Chauke's behalf and supported his earlier oversight of the matter, which she later took over after an instruction from acting NPA head Mxolisi Nxasana in March 2014.
- Noko described 23 interconnected dockets covering alleged unlawful actions between 2008 and 2011 and a total of 28 murder charges linked by a repeated modus operandi.
- She noted that Shamila Batohi later withdrew the charges after Booysen pursued court challenges alleging political prosecution, and the inquiry’s proceedings continue.