DON’T PROSECUTE SELEBI, SAYS ICD

THE Independent Complaints Directorate recommended on Monday that National police commissioner Jackie Selebi should not be prosecuted on crimen injuria charges brought against him by a Pretoria sergeant. The ICD said its investigation has yielded prima facie evidence that Selebi had called the sergeant a chimpanzee but said that instead of prosecution Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete should counsel Selebi “regarding professional and effective means of dealing with staff”. The ICD was tasked with investigating claims by Sergeant Jeanette Mothiba that Selebi had called her a “fucking gorilla” after she failed to recognise him when he walked into Pretoria’s Brooklyn police station on New Year’s eve.