'There are things we do not agree upon, but it's not animosity. We're not fighting. We work together,' says the police minister.
Police minister Bheki Cele has addressed rumours of a feud between him and the national police commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole. File photo.Police minister Bheki Cele says there is no animosity between him and national commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole.came into the spotlight when some MPs blamed instability in the police service on political interference in appointments and the rocky relationship between the minister and the commissioner. “The national commissioner and I are not friends.
“In that work there are things we do not agree upon, but it is not animosity. We are not fighting. We work together. To say we are chaos and don’t work well together, I do not agree with that,” said Cele.
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