Gauteng top cop signed off
son’s application
12 October
2016, 11:40am
LUYOLO MKENTANE
Johannesburg
- Controversial Gauteng police commissioner Lieutenant-Colonel Deliwe de Lange
has denied playing a role in the appointment of her son into the police
service.
But The
Star can reveal De Lange signed off on the acceptance of Tshidiso Damane as a
police trainee despite a criminal charge hanging over his head.
Controversial Gauteng police commissioner Lieutenant-Colonel
Deliwe de Lange. File picture: Neo Ntsoma. Credit: INDEPENDENT MEDIA
A charge
of common assault against him was withdrawn three days after his admission to
the Gauteng academy, and his enlistment was defended by Police Minister Nathi
Nhleko.
De Lange
was said not to have played a part in Damane’s recruitment into the SAPS by her
spokesperson, Colonel Noxolo Kweza, who said Damane went through a typically
stringent process.
