Former Hawks boss Major-General Berning Ntlemeza's application to interdict Police Minister Fikile Mbalula will now be heard on Friday instead of Tuesday, the minister's office said. Ntlemeza's latest legal bid is seeking to interdict Mbalula from preventing him from continuing with his duties pending the outcome of his appeal against the ruling by the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. "Let me be clear to Ntlemeza - wherever he is - we are running a country, not a 'banana republic'. In March, the court found that then police minister Nathi Nhleko had ignored two court judgments, which found that Ntlemeza lacked integrity and honesty, when he appointed him head of the elite police unit. The court found that the findings in both judgments constituted "direct evidence" that Ntlemeza lacked the requisite honesty, integrity, and conscientiousness to hold public office.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 09, 2017 09:11 UTC