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INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS<\/p>\n
Acting police commissioner Major-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.<\/p>\n
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Provincial police crime intelligence boss Major-General Deena Moodley says his ousting from his post is part of a \u201cgreater scheme\u201d by acting police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi to get rid of \u201cthe Indian mafia\u201d from intelligence. <\/p>\n
And Moodley\u2019s deputy Brigadier Sithembiso Ndlovu, says his \u201ctransfer\u201d from intelligence is because he refused to implicate Moodley in any wrongdoing and had not shown his allegiance to African bosses in the police service. <\/p>\n
These allegations by Moodley and Ndlovu are contained in further affidavits filed in Durban\u2019s Labour Court ahead of a hearing this Friday in which they are challenging what they say are Mkhwanazi\u2019s unlawful instructions that they be removed from their posts. <\/p>\n
The men launched their urgent applications after being informed in March of their transfers \u2013 Moodley to Pinetown cluster commander and Ndlovu to Inanda crime prevention commander. <\/p>\n
Mkhwanazi is opposing the applications, but has refused to disclose to the court the details of why he transferred the two senior police officers, saying it was not in the interests of crime intelligence. <\/p>\n
He referred to \u201csuspected criminal activities\u201d and said the transfers were in the best interests of the police service and the public. <\/p>\n
But Moodley says Mkhwanazi\u2019s silence on what he is alleged to have done, is not playing fair \u2013 and smacks of arbitrary conduct motivated by ulterior motive. <\/p>\n
As a policeman of 23 years \u2013 who has only ever received commendations and promotions \u2013 he was being denied basic rights, afforded even to criminals, said Moodley. <\/p>\n
And, he said, how could it possibly be that he was unfit to head intelligence but fit to head up a cluster of station commanders? <\/p>\n
Referring to comments Mkhwanazi allegedly made at a meeting of crime intelligence officers in March \u2013 and which have now apparently been reported to the equality court \u2013 Moodley says it is clear police management believe him to be part of the \u201cIndian mafia\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis transfer is punitive,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Ndlovu, in his affidavit, refers to a meeting in February at which he alleges Mkhwanazi indicated he had to tell them what he knew about Moodley \u201cand that I was myself guilty of corruption should I choose not to and that I would be facing the consequences should I not co-operate\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThose consequences have been my unlawful transfer,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n
He refers to another meeting in which he met a Brigadier Khumalo, the acting head of counter and security intelligence and Dumisani Zulu, section commander covert intelligence, in the parking lot of a Durban beachfront hotel. <\/p>\n
He said: \u201cKhumalo indicated that people are writing reports concerning senior members of crime intelligence and inferring that we were guilty of some sort of misconduct.\u201d <\/p>\n
He said Khumalo said he had been sent to the province to speak to individuals so they could be \u201csaved\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cKhumalo said something was coming and things were about to change\u2026 African members were to show their allegiance and demonstrate which side they were on. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe informed me that Zulu and Mkhwanazi were there for African policemen and not for Indians and whites and that Africans must choose who they support.\u201d <\/p>\n
Both Moodley and Ndlovu challenged Mkhwanazi to tell them what they had allegedly done wrong so that they could defend themselves. <\/p>\n
They said if the information was that sensitive, the commissioner could apply to the Labour Court for the hearing to be held \u201cin camera\u201d. <\/p>\n
Earlier the Mercury reported that Moodley had previously been served with a letter of threatened suspension \u2013 for allegedly instructing officers to intercept cellphone calls of journalists \u2013 but, after making representations, the threat was withdrawn. <\/p>\n
It was soon after this that he received his transfer notice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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