The third day of an arbitration hearing at the sectoral bargaining council in Cape Town on the May dismissal of former detective head Major General Jeremy Vearey adjourned early on Wednesday because of technical glitches.
Advocate Omphemetse Mooki, representing the South African Police Service, had opened his cross-examination by indicating he would put forward copies of Vearey’s social media posts that led to his firing, as well as video material. “I got the sense inthat you appreciate the meaning of words. And that you don’t use words idly. You told the arbitrator part of your interests is in literary words,” Mooki said, to which Vearey conceded.
with his social media posts, and said that anything short of dismissal would amount to condoning his conduct.with the bargaining council in terms of procedural and substantive fairness, leading to the current arbitration process. However, Mooki maintained the article hinted at “machinations” within the police, adding: “it suggests things are not straight” within the service.Mooki then put it to Vearey that his commentary on Facebook was about the SAPS “and what the article says about the South African Police service”.
Mooki however argued that “lighting up the shadows” was Vearey’s choice of expression, because those words were not in the article. “It was a deliberate application of mind on your part to use that expression precisely. Because you know the meanings of words,” he said.
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