Group lays complaint against police after attack on Delft couple
By Mthuthuzeli Ntseku
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Cape Town - The Ukubavimba Foundation has laid a complaint of police brutality at the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) on behalf of a Delft couple who were assaulted allegedly by the police last month.
Merle Crouster said her husband sustained a bruised toe while she suffered a broken collarbone and elbow, and was denied medical treatment for 36 hours while in police custody after they were arrested on bogus accusations.
The foundation s managing director Jeremiah Manuel said they were in possession of a pile of complaints about police brutality that stretched the length and breadth of the Western Cape.
For almost three months SAPS Crime Intelligence (CI) head Peter Jacobs attempted to challenge a notice that he – along with five senior colleagues – was being suspended for suspected personal protective equipment (PPE) fraud from the Secret Service Account. Jacobs was handed a suspension notice on 30 November 2020.
The CI head wrote lengthy communications to national police commissioner Khehla Sitole challenging the decision and setting out that he was being targeted as a result of his clean-up of the unholy mess at Crime Intelligence and because he was investigating senior officers.
“Credible evidence was available that the Account was looted by a number of CFOs and or Divisional Commissioners and other Senior Crime Intelligence Officers,” said Jacobs in a 42-page searing document contextualising what he found in the division when he took the helm in March 2018.
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Businessman Thoshan Panday s mother, his wife, sister and her husband, as well as his assistant, have been named as co-accused in his corruption case.
They face charges of fraud linked to the provision of accommodation and the purchase of goods for the police ahead of and during the 2010 World Cup.
On Monday, they were indicted in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban.
Several relatives of controversial Durban businessman Thoshan Panday - including his wife and mother - have been added as co-accused in his corruption, fraud and racketeering case relating to a police tender worth millions.
South Africans were unhappy to see the likes of Bathabile Dlamini, Malusi Gigaba, Nomvula Mokonyane remaining.
But they took solace in the fact that he immediately got rid of Zuma’s mineral resources minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, and public enterprises minister Lynne Brown, as well as Des van Rooyen (minister of cooperative governance and traditional affairs), Faith Muthambi (minister of public service and administration), David Mahlobo (minister of energy) and Bongani Bongo (state security minister).
He reinstated victims of Zuma’s political machinations, such as Blade Nzimande and Derek Hanekom and introduced
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who returned earlier from a posting as chair of the African Union (AU) Commission, and Zweli Mkhize, formerly KwaZulu-Natal premier.