Suspended Mpumalanga provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Semakaleng Manamela lost her challenge at the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria which denied her an interdict of the board of inquiry against her.
Suspended Mpumalanga provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Semakaleng Manamela has failed in her application for leave to appeal the judgment dismissing her attempt to stop the board of inquiry instituted against her.
Manamela went to the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, seeking to have her superior, the suspended National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola, held in contempt of court. She also aimed to stop the board of inquiry established to investigate serious misconduct allegations until the proceedings at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) were finalised.
Last month, Judge Anthony Millar found that the board of inquiry the SA Police Service (SAPS) intends to institute is statutory and is convened during the term of office in respect of who the inquiry is to be conducted and may not only be convened for Manamela while she is still in office as Mpumalanga provincial police commissioner.
The judge ruled that it was not open to Manamela to seek to interdict the board of inquiry from being convened because she had not asserted her rights to compel a response.
