Published on 24/10/2011
South African President Jacob Zuma suspended the country's top policeman with immediate effect on Monday, pending the outcome of an investigation into fraud allegations.
South African President Jacob Zuma suspended the country's top policeman with immediate effect on Monday, pending the outcome of an investigation into fraud allegations.
President Zuma also fired two cabinet ministers implicated in graft in an attempt to dispel criticism that he is soft on corruption in his government.
Zuma told reporters that Cooperative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka and Public Works Minister Gwen Mahlangu Nkabinde will leave cabinet.
Shiceka was suspected of spending 600,000 rand ($74,000) on un-sanctioned luxury travel including overseas visits to a girlfriend imprisoned in Switzerland for drug smuggling.
Nkabinde and police commissioner Bheki Cele, who is not in the cabinet, were named in a government-sanctioned report for suspected illegal conduct in property rental deals.
Zuma told reporters that National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele will be suspended pending the outcome of a board of enquiry into allegations of illegal conduct involving $265 million in police property lease deals.
Source:The Standard Media.
Source:The Standard Media.
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