NEW CRIME INTELLIGENCE HEAD NATIONAL Police Commissioner George Fivaz has announced the appointment of assistant commissioner Tim Williams as chief of police crime intelligence, following the death of previous incumbent Leonard Radu earlier this year.
LESOTHO COP IN COURT SECOND Lieutenant Phakiso Modise, one of two Lesotho policemen recently refused asylum in South Africa, appeared in the Maseru Magistrate’s Court today charged with leading an abortive police mutiny in February. He was remanded in custody. The prosecution asked that Modise be committed to trial in the Lesotho High Court. He will be joined on trial by 31 other accused mutineers, who stand charged with sedition and contravening security laws.
OUSTED NKABINDE TO JOIN HOLOMISA BANTU HOLOMISA has confirmed that Sifiso Nkabinde, the ANC midlands leader expelled as an alleged police spy, will join his National Consultative Forum. Holomisa said the ANC’s claims that Nkabinde was a spy were based on a file stolen from police “and who can say that the file has not been tampered with”. Holomisa said he will also hold talks with Inkatha shortly.
POLICE UNION DEFIANCE The police union Popcru starts a defiance campaign this morning that includes a refusal to speak in Afrikaans or English and lunch-hour pickets. The union has accused police chief George Fivaz of failing to implement transformation within the police force and has called on him to quit. Fivaz in turn has threatened disciplinary action.
WEB SITE FOR TORTURE VICTIM The brother of a man in intensive care in Linksfield Hospital after being tortured for two hours by robbers, will put up a web site dedicated to crime in South Africa. Web site designer Irnest Kaplan will create a web site for his brother Robbie, who was stabbed, beaten, burnt and shot for two hours, then left for dead. His two-year-old son, hidden under a duvet, slept through.