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City Press reports that the hearing into allegations of misconduct against suspended deputy police commissioner Francinah Vuma has found that the police service has waived its rights to discipline her.
Vuma was suspended in July last year following a Pretoria High Court ruling that she and former national commissioner Khehla Sitole and his deputy, Jacob Tsumane, “breached their duties” by not handing over or declassifying documents for the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) to investigate allegations of fraud and corruption. In a ruling delivered on Tuesday by the Safety and Security Sectoral Bargaining Council, arbitrator Johnny Mathebula found: “The respondent (police service) has waived its right to discipline Lieutenant-General Vuma. The respondent is accordingly precluded from disciplining the applicant.” Vuma’s lawyers had raised two preliminary points. The first was that the police service had unreasonably delayed in instituting a disciplinary inquiry against Vuma, which was being instituted five years from the dates of the alleged acts/omissions. The other was that, by its conduct, the respondent had waived its right to discipline Vuma. In responding to Vuma’s submission, the police service had argued that the charges were not being reopened as they had already been determined by the High Court and that they arose from the judgment itself and as a result of it. But, Vuma’s lawyers argued further that the police service took no action against Vuma, had no intention to discipline her and instead, she was advised on how to handle the IPID issue and was later promoted in 2020 to an even higher position. According to Vuma, who is responsible for asset management in the SAPS, she had rebuffed several attempts by her seniors to sway certain contracts to benefit certain companies.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Abram Mashego at City Press (subscriber access only)
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