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News24 reports that last month the police advertised 5,000 positions nationally to recruit entry level trainees, who would be trained in all nine provinces. The applications closed on 30 June.
Whereas the advertisement for recruitment in Mpumalanga stated that application forms could be hand delivered at the provincial office in Mbombela, the same advertisement stated that applications for the Free State could be hand delivered at the nearest police station, or posted to the police in Bloemfontein. The secretary of Vulamehlo Kusile Organisation, Elias Mahlangu, said his NPO had received complaints about this matter from a number of young people who had wanted to apply for the training. He claimed that many job seekers in the entire Nkangala region did not apply for the police training as they could not afford to travel to Mbombela. Areas that are in the Nkangala region include KwaMhlanga, Siyabuswa, Emalahleni and Middelburg. Ntombi Mahlangu of Vezubuhle Village in KwaMhlanga had wanted to apply for the training, but was dissuaded by the requirement that she had to hand deliver her application form in Mbombela, which is about 300km from Vezubuhle. But Mpumalanga police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala insisted that applicants in the province were allowed to submit application forms at their local police stations. "I was there when many people submitted their application forms at KwaMhlanga and Kwaggafontein police stations," said Mohlala.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Warren Mabona at News24
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