SowetanLive reports that former Limpopo police commissioner Lt-Gen Nneke Ledwaba and two other generals are facing corruption charges after they allegedly hired a candidate who did not get the highest score during a job interview process.

Ledwaba and his co-accused, Maj-Gen Hlagodi Morakaladi and Maj-Gen Nyikeni Baloyi, made a brief appearance in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Wednesday. The matter was postponed to August. In 2016, the trio was part of a selection panel responsible for the interview and recommendation of candidates in relation to advertised posts for Polokwane station commander and the Modimolle cluster commander. According to the charge sheet, the accused allegedly changed the score sheets to favour their preferred candidate with the result that candidates with higher scores were not recommended for the job. Ledwaba and Baloyi have since retired, and Morakaladi is still serving as an officer. Robbie Raburabu of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) said the matter was referred to them in 2019 after it was reported to SAPS by an officer. He said the officer, who was a former station commander at Westenburg in Polokwane, allegedly “got information that he was supposed to have been appointed because he scored higher points.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jeanette Chabalala at SowetanLive

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