National police commissioner Khehla Sitole has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa to save his job, setting out how bad legal advice and a "plot" to oust him by former IPID boss Robert McBride had sullied his name.

National police commissioner Khehla Sitole has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa to save his job, setting out how bad legal advice and a “plot” to oust him by former IPID boss Robert McBride had sullied his name.

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15 September 2021

At issue is a High Court judgment handed down in January, which found Sitole and 2 of his lieutenants, Francinah Vuma and Leonard Tsumane, “breached their duties” in failing to co-operate with IPID, as the cop watchdog probed a string of dodgy deals. The declaratory order is the basis of a looming inquiry into Sitole’s fitness to hold office.

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