Renditions: Another Ipid disciplinary case looms

Ipid's former spokesman Moses Dlamini will face charges related to covering up the illegal rendition of Zimbabwean nationals.

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Cape Town – Following the dismissal of Matthews Sesoko, the former head of investigations at the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, the watchdog body’s former spokesman will face disciplinary charges, also on charges relating to the alleged doctoring of a report on renditions to protect former Hawks boss Anwa Dramat.

The disciplinary process against Moses Dlamini will begin on Friday, ANA has reliably learnt, and will relate to him allegedly having spoken to or being in contact with suspended Ipid boss Robert McBride and Viceroy Maoka, and making negative comments about Police Minister Nathi Nhleko and the new Ipid leadership under Israel Kgamanyane.

Dlamini has been sidelined within Ipid since Kgamanyane’s appointment and the body has a new acting spokesman in Robbie Raburabu.

It is expected that the disciplinary process will be headed by Prince Mokotedi, the new head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) in Gauteng. Mokotedi quit the National Prosecuting Authority under a cloud.

Sesoko was fighting charges of fraud and defeating the ends of justice for allegedly altering a report to cover up the alleged of role of Dramat, the head of the Hawks, in the rendition of five Zimbabweans to the Zimbabwean police in 2010 and 2011.

He was suspended along with McBride and the former Ipid provincial head in Limpopo Innocent Khuba.

The long-running narrative that Dramat and former Gauteng Hawks head Shadrack Sibiya were involved in illegal renditions and that McBride, Khuba and Sesoko had doctored a report to exonerate them, has impacted severely on the Hawks and Ipid and has in turn been cast as a political conspiracy.

African News Agency