How said that that the South African Police have been corrupted so far as to necessitate the prounouncement below by African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe who has called on SA's President Jacob Zuma to "intervene in this war" of police authorities with one another. Sooner or later, all countries have problems like this. But so much is at stake in post-revolutionary South Africa that we may devoutly wish it to be an exception.
— Politicarp, refWrite Frontpage political columnist
— reposted here by Politcarp
Pretoria News (May7,2k12)
Call: unchain Hawks from police control
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS
Deon de Lange
Political Bureau
THE “war” raging between senior police managers is the perfect example of why the Hawks should not be located in the SAPS but be granted the independence to tackle complex or sensitive investigations without fear or favour, former DA MP Raenette Taljaard has said.
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| Richard Mdluli. Photo: Phill Magakoe |
Parliament’s police committee is working on amendments to the SAPS Act after the Constitutional Court found last year that the Hawks were not independent enough to protect them against political interference.
Taljaard told the Cape Town Press Club that the UN anti-corruption convention – which SA has signed – “clearly requires an independent anti-corruption watchdog”.
“I would assume that this issue of independence would inevitably mean that you cannot (keep) the Hawks within the SAPS in the way that is being contemplated (by Parliament),” she said yesterday.
African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe called on President Jacob Zuma to “intervene in this ‘war’ to stop senior police officers from attacking each other in public”.
The conflict between securocrats was “undermining the credibility of the SAPS and threatening national security”, he said.
“President Zuma must support (acting national police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi), failing which the perception will be created that he is protecting (crime intelligence boss Richard) Mdluli as his preferred choice as national commissioner.”
Meshoe’s call follows the extraordinary statement by Mkhwanazi this week that he feared widespread panic in the service “as senior officers tear each other apart in war”.
“It is war. I am cleaning house and will not stop until all the bad apples, regardless of who they are, are removed once and for all,” Mkhwanazi told The Times on Wednesday.
“If someone is involved in something – be it stealing from slush funds or abusing police resources, and lies about it – those lies will one day catch up with you. I will prove that there are people strategically operating like a mafia and I will deal with these people. I will ensure that justice is delivered.”
Mkhwanazi’s statement was the frankest admission yet by a senior officer of the turf wars plaguing the state security establishment.
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