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Daily Maverick reports that National Commissioner Khehla John Sitole will vacate his position on 31 March 2022 ‘by mutual agreement’, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office has announced.
The termination of Sitole’s contract, said the president’s acting spokesperson Tyrone Seale, was “in the best interests of the country”. Sitole vacates the position after a scathing judgment handed down on 13 January 2021 by Judge Norman Davis in the Gauteng High Court. It was found that Sitole and his two deputies, Francinah Vuma and Lebeoana Tsumane, had placed the interests of the governing party, the ANC, ahead of those of the country. This was in relation to the National Commissioner’s three-year attempt to thwart an Ipid investigation into the attempted procurement of a surveillance “grabber” at the inflated price of R45-million prior to the ANC’s elective conference at Nasrec in December 2017. In November 2017, a month after his appointment by President Jacob Zuma, Sitole found himself at a meeting at the Courtyard Hotel in Pretoria where the R45-million grabber deal was discussed. Sitole cancelled the deal later when he was tipped off by Ipid investigators but it was this meeting that ultimately sealed his demise after a long career in the SAPS. More generally, he faced a turbulent time in office. Ramaphosa’s office said an announcement would be made in due course on filling the position of SAPS national commissioner.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Marianne Thamm at Daily Maverick
- Read too, ‘In the country’s interests’, Ramaphosa removes police commissioner Khehla Sitole ‘by mutual agreement', at BusinessLive
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