News24 reports that Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) boss Robert McBride is taking his fight to keep his job to court.  

McBride has filed an urgent application in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria asking the court to declare Police Minister Bheki Cele's decision not to renew his appointment as IPID executive director "unconstitutional, unlawful and invalid".  McBride's term at IPID comes to an end on 28 February this year.  In a curt letter last week, Cele informed McBride that he had forwarded his decision not to renew McBride's contract to Parliament for consideration.  But in his affidavit filed at the High Court on Tuesday, McBride claimed that the decision was not one that the minister was empowered to take.  He said the decision must be taken by the National Assembly's Portfolio Committee on Police, being the parliamentary committee responsible for appointing the executive.  "By purporting to exercise this power, the minister has undermined the independence of IPID,” McBride argued.

• Read Jeanette Chabalala’s report on this story in full at News24
• Read too, McBride takes Cele to court over work contract, at The Citizen

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