Whatever the outcome, it will bring a denouement to four years of political infighting, criminality and gross mismanagement, particularly with regard to personal protective equipment procurement by the SA Police Service.
National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole is hanging on to his job by a thread, this week filing representations with President Cyril Ramaphosa on why he should not be suspended from the top job.
While the SAPS at first announced that he had died of Covid-19, Mfazi’s body was later exhumed after suspected poisoning. Police have confirmed a post-mortem was conducted, but the findings have not been made public.That a senior policeman may have been murdered after having oversight as acting National Commissioner over the Crime Intelligence Division is deeply sinister and worrying.
Sitole has pleaded innocence in the matter, saying it was he, in fact, who stopped the “Nasrec grabber” CI grift in the first place after being tipped off by the police watchdog, Ipid. Sitole’s co-accused, Lieutenant-General Francinah Vuma, Deputy National Commissioner: Management Advisory Services, has been on family leave and will return to work on Thursday, 7 October to face the music.
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