Earlier this week, former SA Police Service crime intelligence head Richard Mdluli was sentenced in the Johannesburg high court to an effective five years imprisonment for counts of kidnapping, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, assault and intimidation.
His conviction and sentencing follow a series of legal challenges over several years by Freedom Under Law to decisions that would have given Mdluli impunity and kept him in his crucial post. The charges against him (with other charges of fraud and corruption) were initially withdrawn by prosecutors Andrew Chauke and Nomgcobo Jiba. In 2012 judge Ephraim Makgoba granted Freedom Under Law an urgent order directing that Mdluli stand down from his position pending the determination of a review of that decision. ..
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