Solidarity to announce action to be taken against SAPS’s corrupt and unlawful NSF Project
6 November 2018
At a press conference on Wednesday 7 November Solidarity will announce the steps it will take on behalf of its members in the South African Police Service (SAPS) to have the implementation of the controversial project for members of the non-statutory forces (NSF) revised. The aim of this project is to promote approximately 600 former freedom fighters in great secrecy.
This action follows after Solidarity earlier served court papers on the SAPS to review the project it intended to implement through a secret human resource project.
According to Solidarity Chief Executive Dirk Hermann, the SAPS has until today (Tuesday 6 November) to respond to Solidarity’s court papers. “If they do not respond by the deadline Solidarity will announce full-scale legal action against the SAPS,” Hermann confirmed.
According to Hermann, the NSF project was developed in great secrecy, and in essence, it sets out to appoint so-called NSF members, who are said to have been MK and APLA members, and to create major career leaps for them in the SAPS. “For example, some of those leaps include planned promotions from the rank of sergeant to the rank of brigadier – a leap involving five ranks,” Hermann said.