The police did not have any intelligence on the July unrest before widespread looting and riots hit Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, says national commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole.
National police commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole on Tuesday told the SA Human Rights Commission that there was no intelligence report before the outbreak of violence in July. File photo.In the hot seat at the SA Human Rights Commission’s hearing into the July unrest, national police commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole insisted that he was still fit to do his job.
Grilled on why he believed he could lead the SA Police Services when the country burnt, billions of rand were lost and people were killed under his watch during the unrest, Sitole denied that his actions were a gross dereliction of his duty. Advocate Smanga Sethene put it to Sitole that he showed “brazen incompetence” in relation to the unrest.
“Why do you think that you are still fit to be police commissioner of SA? The material and brazen security lapses that embarrassed the country, the head of state could not even receive the intelligence report — why does Gen Sitole think he is still fit to be the national commissioner of police? “Do you still want to do it when you have proven beyond doubt that you have failed? You have failed the country. You have conceded that an estimated R50bn has been lost. The country’s image has been dented. Investor confidence has nosedived. Why do you think you still deserve to hold the position?”“I can still do the job. Because you and I didn’t go into the root-cause analysis of exactly the factors you are highlighting,” he said.
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