PRETORIA. – President Cyril Ramaphosa has lifted the precautionary suspension of General Fannie Masemola, national police commissioner. Masemola is expected to return to his full duties on Monday 19 October after the charges against him were withdrawn.
Vincent Magwenya, spokesperson of the president, says Masemola and Ramaphosa agreed in April this year that the commissioner should accept precautionary suspension after he appeared in the Pretoria magistrate's court on charges of contravening the Public Finance Management Act. The National Director of Public Prosecutions instructed on 15 September that the charges be withdrawn. The court formally withdrew them on 22 September.
Ramaphosa welcomed Masemola's return and thanked Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane for her service as acting national police commissioner during that period.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
