Suspended crime intellience head Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli will have to explain why R150 000 of police funds was used to upgrade security at his house when he appears before a disciplinary hearing in July, City Press reported on Sunday.
The 10 charges Mdluli faces were revealed in court papers filed by former acting police chief Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi in the Johannesburg Labour Court this week. The charges against him relate to his alleged abuse of a crime intelligence “slush fund”, that he misled investigations into 250 covert appointments of crime intelligence operatives, and appointed family members and friends to police positions. The charge sheet states that Mdluli allegedly spent R150 209 on security upgrades to his Boksburg home, authorised air travel for his wife and children to the value of R84 199, and spent R46 809 on business class tickets for his wife.
Mdluli remains suspended from the police service, pending various court actions. The Labour Court case in which Mdluli is challenging his suspension is due to be heard this week. Last year, Mdluli faced fraud and corruption charges for the misuse of the fund, and faced a murder charge for the death of his former lover’s husband. The charges led to his initial suspension. This year, all the charges were withdrawn and Mdluli was reinstated in March. This was widely criticised by, among others, the Democratic Alliance and lobby group Freedom Under Law. Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa later moved him to a different division but Mkhwanazi opted to suspend him. The suspension was lifted by the Labour Court on June 1 but subsequently overturned by the same court.
New top cop Mangwashi Phiyega said she will comment on the investigation into Mdluli after she has read the files on him, the paper reported. “I will be dealing with it.”
Phiyega said documents seen in newspapers were “adulterated”. “Now that I’m here, they will show me the real files and maybe when you talk to me 12 months down the line, I will be able to say I did see the real files and what we were seeing wasn’t the real thing,” she told the publication.
Phiyega also commended the Independent Police Investigative Directorate.
“No doctor can doctor herself. It’s critical and important to have the directorate to police us and to regulate us. I really appreciate its existence.”
Source: Mail & Guardian
Showing posts with label Mangwashi Phiyega. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mangwashi Phiyega. Show all posts
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
It's just a case of putting them in their place
Princess and the peeve
AS Vera was floating about at defence headquarters in Pretoria she came across a woman sobbing inconsolably. On closer inspection it turned out it was none other than Princess Nonceba Lindiwe Sisulu. People in the corridors were whispering that she had just been moved from the glamorous Defence Ministry to the gritty Public Service ministry. So she would now no longer be able to wear those sexy military uniforms to state events. She would no longer be saluted by generals and admirals. She would also no longer be in a position to refuse to answer questions for "security reasons". No longer will she be able to scream at the DA's David Maynier.
Aaagh shame, poor thing.
Wardrobe malfunction
Adding to the princess' misery is that she will now have to hang around Zwelinzima Vavi, Sadtu's Thobile Ntola, Nehawu's Fikile Majola and those guys from Solidarity. And instead of slapping striking soldiers with court-martials, she will have to accept memoranda from angry workers. Vera can't wait to see which fashion label she'll be wearing when she addresses workers from the back of a truck.
Blunt Blade cuts losses
Vera's favourite bourgeois communist put on his boxing gloves and went to Durban recently to put workers in their place. After angering the workers by chastising them for demanding that he leave his cushy government job and lose his flashy car, he then tried to charm them. He did many Phansi! slogans and got the enthusiastic Phansi! responses from the workers. But being a cabinet minister he could not bring himself to say Phansi !nge e-tolls Phansi!, prompting workers to shout him down.
The bourgeois communist, who had never been booed by unionists before, ended up in hospital recovering from the emotional breakdown. But as soon as he heard that some ANC leaders planned to take on President Jacob "I know what I'm doing" Zuma at the NEC meeting, he got out of his pyjamas and ran off to defend his paymaster.
Know where your bread is buttered...
Cop is being caught up
THE new top cop, Mangwashi Phiyega, started her career on a high note this week by feeding the media with nice sound-bites. Quizzed about her lack of policing experience, she simply said: "You do not need to be a drunkard to own a bottle store." She may as well have continued to say you do not need to be a drug addict to push drugs. Nice start, but Vera thinks she will need a lot of work to catch up to Bheki Cele, the master of great quotes.
Vera would like to share a little observation. When Maria Ramos arrived at Transnet in 2004, she and Phiyega were immediately at each others' throats. Phiyega jumped ship and went to Absa. Then Ramos left Transnet to head up Absa. Phiyega was forced to jump ship again to flee her nemesis. Based on this pattern, Vera predicts that Ramos' next job is minister of police.
Vera's Question of the Week: Will the new top cop be patrolling the streets of Hillbrow on New Year's eve?
Source: The Sowetan
AS Vera was floating about at defence headquarters in Pretoria she came across a woman sobbing inconsolably. On closer inspection it turned out it was none other than Princess Nonceba Lindiwe Sisulu. People in the corridors were whispering that she had just been moved from the glamorous Defence Ministry to the gritty Public Service ministry. So she would now no longer be able to wear those sexy military uniforms to state events. She would no longer be saluted by generals and admirals. She would also no longer be in a position to refuse to answer questions for "security reasons". No longer will she be able to scream at the DA's David Maynier.
Aaagh shame, poor thing.
Wardrobe malfunction
Adding to the princess' misery is that she will now have to hang around Zwelinzima Vavi, Sadtu's Thobile Ntola, Nehawu's Fikile Majola and those guys from Solidarity. And instead of slapping striking soldiers with court-martials, she will have to accept memoranda from angry workers. Vera can't wait to see which fashion label she'll be wearing when she addresses workers from the back of a truck.
Blunt Blade cuts losses
Vera's favourite bourgeois communist put on his boxing gloves and went to Durban recently to put workers in their place. After angering the workers by chastising them for demanding that he leave his cushy government job and lose his flashy car, he then tried to charm them. He did many Phansi! slogans and got the enthusiastic Phansi! responses from the workers. But being a cabinet minister he could not bring himself to say Phansi !nge e-tolls Phansi!, prompting workers to shout him down.
The bourgeois communist, who had never been booed by unionists before, ended up in hospital recovering from the emotional breakdown. But as soon as he heard that some ANC leaders planned to take on President Jacob "I know what I'm doing" Zuma at the NEC meeting, he got out of his pyjamas and ran off to defend his paymaster.
Know where your bread is buttered...
Cop is being caught up
THE new top cop, Mangwashi Phiyega, started her career on a high note this week by feeding the media with nice sound-bites. Quizzed about her lack of policing experience, she simply said: "You do not need to be a drunkard to own a bottle store." She may as well have continued to say you do not need to be a drug addict to push drugs. Nice start, but Vera thinks she will need a lot of work to catch up to Bheki Cele, the master of great quotes.
Vera would like to share a little observation. When Maria Ramos arrived at Transnet in 2004, she and Phiyega were immediately at each others' throats. Phiyega jumped ship and went to Absa. Then Ramos left Transnet to head up Absa. Phiyega was forced to jump ship again to flee her nemesis. Based on this pattern, Vera predicts that Ramos' next job is minister of police.
Vera's Question of the Week: Will the new top cop be patrolling the streets of Hillbrow on New Year's eve?
Source: The Sowetan
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Unmasking SA's new top cop: Who is Mangwashi Phiyega?
The M&G takes a look at Mangwashi Victoria Phiyega, who President Jacob Zuma has chosen to replace Bheki Cele as the new national police commissioner. Bheki Cele has been sacked from his position as national police commissioner. President Jacob Zuma announced Cele’s firing at a hastily convened press conference on Tuesday afternoon where he named Mangwashi Victoria “Riah” Phiyega as Cele’s replacement. “It is my pleasure to announce the new national police commissioner today who takes office with immediate effect,” he said.
Phiyega is currently chairperson of the presidential review committee on state owned enterprises and deputy chairperson of the independent commission on the remuneration of office bearers. She will be the first woman to hold the post of national police commissioner. Phiyega told the Mail & Guardian she was excited about her appointment. ‘I am deeply humbled by this vote of confidence and I look forward to serving with dignity and humility’ she said.
Despite holding a number of high profile positions with corporates, parastatals and NGOs, Phiyega has no policing experience and is sure to come under fire for this. Security experts have long decried the fact that neither of the countries past two police commissioners - Cele and convicted fraudster Jackie Selebi - have come from within the ranks of the police force.
According to the presidency, Phiyega is a past Absa Group executive for corporate affairs. She chaired the bank’s AllPay boards for Gauteng and the Eastern Cape, was a board member of Absa Actuaries and a trustee of the Absa Foundation. She spent a number of years at Transnet, where she occupied a range of positions in different divisions. She was group executive corporate affairs, a member of the executive committee, and an attending member of the board. It’s rumoured that her 2009 departure from Absa, where she served as head of corporate affairs, was linked to her difficult relationship with the bank’s chief executive Maria Ramos. Phiyega was said to be one of a group of Transnet executives ousted when Ramos took over as chief executive at the parastatal in 2004.
Prior to her time at Transnet, Phiyega served as general manager for ports and corporate affairs at the National Ports Authority. She has also chaired the national welfare forum, acted as a commissioner for the Road Accident Fund, and was a board member of the 2010 World Cup bid committee.
Phiyega was born in Polokwane. She holds an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Johannesburg and a post graduate diploma in business administration from the University of Wales, and has completed programmes in management and business leadership programmes at the University of Singapore and the prestigious Wharton Business School in Pensylvania. She began her professional career as a social worker and branch manager at Pretoria Child Welfare and later served as the director of the National Council of Child Welfare.
Phiyega is a member of the International Women’s Forum of South Africa, which identifies her as “a coach and mentor” linked to various organisations. Phiyega was featured in the M&G 2011 Book of South African Women. In an essay she penned for the publication, she quoted Jamaican university professor Pat Morgan, who said: “The 21st century woman embodies the hopes of her nation, knows the history of her people, exposes injustice and comforts the poor and the unemployed.”
Source: Mail & Guardian
Phiyega is currently chairperson of the presidential review committee on state owned enterprises and deputy chairperson of the independent commission on the remuneration of office bearers. She will be the first woman to hold the post of national police commissioner. Phiyega told the Mail & Guardian she was excited about her appointment. ‘I am deeply humbled by this vote of confidence and I look forward to serving with dignity and humility’ she said.
Despite holding a number of high profile positions with corporates, parastatals and NGOs, Phiyega has no policing experience and is sure to come under fire for this. Security experts have long decried the fact that neither of the countries past two police commissioners - Cele and convicted fraudster Jackie Selebi - have come from within the ranks of the police force.
According to the presidency, Phiyega is a past Absa Group executive for corporate affairs. She chaired the bank’s AllPay boards for Gauteng and the Eastern Cape, was a board member of Absa Actuaries and a trustee of the Absa Foundation. She spent a number of years at Transnet, where she occupied a range of positions in different divisions. She was group executive corporate affairs, a member of the executive committee, and an attending member of the board. It’s rumoured that her 2009 departure from Absa, where she served as head of corporate affairs, was linked to her difficult relationship with the bank’s chief executive Maria Ramos. Phiyega was said to be one of a group of Transnet executives ousted when Ramos took over as chief executive at the parastatal in 2004.
Prior to her time at Transnet, Phiyega served as general manager for ports and corporate affairs at the National Ports Authority. She has also chaired the national welfare forum, acted as a commissioner for the Road Accident Fund, and was a board member of the 2010 World Cup bid committee.
Phiyega was born in Polokwane. She holds an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Johannesburg and a post graduate diploma in business administration from the University of Wales, and has completed programmes in management and business leadership programmes at the University of Singapore and the prestigious Wharton Business School in Pensylvania. She began her professional career as a social worker and branch manager at Pretoria Child Welfare and later served as the director of the National Council of Child Welfare.
Phiyega is a member of the International Women’s Forum of South Africa, which identifies her as “a coach and mentor” linked to various organisations. Phiyega was featured in the M&G 2011 Book of South African Women. In an essay she penned for the publication, she quoted Jamaican university professor Pat Morgan, who said: “The 21st century woman embodies the hopes of her nation, knows the history of her people, exposes injustice and comforts the poor and the unemployed.”
Source: Mail & Guardian
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