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Judgment reserved in Dramat leave to appeal

Judgment in an application for leave to appeal the High Court in Pretoria’s decision to overturn Hawks boss Anwa Dramat’s suspension was reserved on Monday. Judge Bill Prinsloo said he would attempt to give judgment as soon as he could and added that all parties would be informed. William Mokhari, for[…]

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Dramat can’t return to work

Hawks boss Anwa Dramat cannot return to work on Monday now that Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko has filed to appeal a court’s decision to overturn his suspension, the ministry said on Sunday. “Because we have filed the appeal papers the status quo remains… he is still suspended,” police ministry spokesman[…]

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Dramat suspension illegal: court

Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko’s decision to suspend Hawks boss Anwa Dramat was invalid, the High Court in Pretoria ruled on Friday. “The order which I make is the following: it is declared that the decision of the minister of police to suspend Lt-Gen Anwa Dramat, the national head of the[…]

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Charges against Dramat ‘nothing’: Breytenbach

Prosecutor-turned Democratic Alliance MP Glynnis Breytenbach on Wednesday said the allegations that led to Hawks boss Anwa Dramat’s suspension were baseless. “It is a nothing, it is just a made-up thing,” she told the Cape Town Press Club on the allegations that Dramat was involved in the illegal rendition of[…]

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Sibiya served with second notice of suspension

Gauteng Hawks head Maj-Gen Shadrack Sibiya has been served with a second suspension notice, the Hawks said on Wednesday. “The notice of suspension was delivered to him personally this afternoon and he has been given five days to respond,” said Hawks spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi. An application by Sibiya to[…]

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HSF heads to court over Dramat suspension

The High Court in Pretoria is expected on Thursday to hear representations seeking an order for the suspension of Hawks boss Anwa Dramat to be declared invalid. The Helen Suzman Foundation was expected to make representations and said it believed that Police Minister Nathi Nhleko acted unlawfully when he suspended[…]

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Sibiya suspension withdrawn, application collapses

An application for details behind Gauteng Hawks head Maj-Gen Shadrack Sibiya’s notice of suspension was struck from the roll of the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday. “We have been advised that [the Hawks] have withdrawn the notice placing the applicant on precautionary suspension,” Sibiya’s lawyer, Naomi Manaka, told the[…]

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Hawks head goes to court over suspension

Gauteng Hawks head Maj-Gen Shadrack Sibiya goes to the Labour Court on Wednesday to challenge his notice of suspension from the crime-fighting body. His lawyer Victor Nkhwashu told The Star that they were hoping to get details of the suspension. “He [Sibiya] hopes to be supplied with the particulars we’ve[…]

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HSF to challenge Dramat suspension

The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) are to approach the Pretoria High Court in a bid to challenge the suspension of Hawks boss, Anwar Dramat. They are hoping the court will take into account a previous ruling on the matter by the Constitutional Court, and have the suspension declared invalid. Dramat[…]

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Police mum on Dramat’s suspension

The police ministry will not comment in the media about Hawks boss Anwa Dramat, after his lawyers gave Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko until Monday to lift his suspension. “Dramat and his lawyer decided to make it a media issue. It is really not what we are going to do. The[…]

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