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EFF to report Cele to PP for involvement in suspension of Jacobs EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has described Cele’s role in the saga involving the suspension of crime intelligence boss Peter Jacobs and five others as a classic case of how politicians often undermined investigations. FILE: Police Minister Bheki Cele. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News. 96 days ago JOHANNESBURG - After opening a case of political interference and defeating the ends of justice against Police Minister Bheki Cele, the Economic...

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has laid a criminal case against Police Minister Bheki Cele for alleged meddling in investigations into suspected fraudulent procurement of personal protective equipment.

Jan Gerber Suspended police Crime Intelligence Chief, Lieutenant-General Peter Jacobs, has lost a court bid to return to work.  Jacobs, and five officers under his command, face misconduct charges which centre on the use of a secret police slush fund to buy Covid-19 PPE. The veteran cop claims he is being pushed out for exposing graft in the uppermost echelons of the police.  An urgent court bid by police Crime Intelligence head Peter Jacobs, in which he and five of his subordinates challenged their suspensions over a R1.5 million Covid-19 personal protection equipment (PPE) procurement sca...

Thus the application by Jacobs, argued Sitole, was not urgent “and any urgency is self-created”.  Sitole said that “proper safeguards are in place in the interim and the day-to-day functioning of the Crime Intelligence Division has not been compromised in any way”. Jacobs and his fellow officers were on a “precautionary” and not “punitive” suspension, said Sitole, pending the finalisation of an investigation into alleged illegal Covid-19 PPE purchases by the division, using the Secret Service Account. They also had other remedies at their disposal apart from approaching the h...

2020 in Review: an interesting year for Skeptical Science Posted on 29 December 2020 by BaerbelW As we wrap up a truly interesting year 2020 and prepare for 2021, here is our annual review of what our team was up to during the last 12 months, most of which have obviously been dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic. As in previous recaps, this one is divided into several sections: Scholarly publications, projects and books Several members of the SkS-team were lead- or co-authors of peer-reviewed papers published during 2020. Here is a list of some of them: Martin B. Stolpe, Sebastian Sippel, Eric...