MINISTER’S CALL-UP
Promotions ensure loyalty to ANC, say SAPS members
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has issued a call-up for more than 600 former freedom fighters to attend a meeting on Friday to discuss promotions. This had raised fear that Mbalula was seeking to buy their loyalty ahead of the ANC elective conference in December and the 2019 elections, police sources said. The directive, seen by Business Day, was issued on Monday to the police top brass including the head of the Hawks and all divisional and provisional commissioners. It requires 628 nonstatutory forces (NSF) members "who are in the process of being reranked" to attend a meeting in formal dress with Mbalula at the South African Police Service (SAPS) Tshwane Academy. The largest group, of 240, are from Gauteng. NSF members are police officials from the armed wings of former liberation movements integrated into the SAPS. The call-up specifies that retired NSF members and those who had left the police and then applied to be re-enlisted "will be dealt with at a later phase", suggesting ...
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