ARTICLES RELATING TO
NHLANHLA MKHWANAZI
National police commissioner General Riah Phiyega has reinstated supply chain management divisional head Lieutenant General Gary Kruser after he had been suspended for almost a year.
Police have denied that former acting police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has been appointed police commissioner of the Northern Cape.
A conman, since declared dead by home affairs, managed to trick the police into believing he was a brigadier with the Hawks, the Sunday Independent reports.
Police have confirmed that there is no record that Sunday Times journalists accepted bribes, its editor Ray Hartley says.
Major General Chris Ngcobo has been appointed as acting head of Crime Intelligence and Protection and Security Services in a move aimed at stabilising the troubled police division.
Suspended crime intelligence head lieutenant-general Richard Mdluli will have to explain why R150 000 of police funds was used to upgrade security at his house when he appears before a disciplinary hearing.
The police service needs to be rescued from its current scandal-ridden situation, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille says at the party’s Limpopo congress.
Acting police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says that he is ready for any investigation into allegations that he looted the crime intelligence fund.
The Democratic Alliance has called on the auditor general to investigate "suspicious" allegations that acting police boss Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi misspent money from the crime intelligence budget on cars.
The police are not commenting on the interdict preventing former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli carrying out police duties, a spokesperson says.
The interdict against former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli carrying out police duties is good for all South Africans, DA spokesperson Dianne Kohler Barnard says.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and acting police boss Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi have been barred from assigning controversial former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli any duties, a court has ruled.
Suspended police crime intelligence boss Lieutenant General Richard Mdluli says he is ill and cannot work, because his doctor has booked him off for stress and hypertension, and told him he needs rest.
The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria will hear an application by Freedom Under Law for an urgent interdict preventing Lieutenant General Richard Mdluli from serving on the police force.
The SA Police Service and suspended crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli's lawyers are expected to appear in the Johannesburg Labour Court even though the court has lifted his suspension.
