DA condemns Police Committee's rubber-stamping appointment of new IPID head
15 July 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) condemns the decision taken by Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police to support the Police Minister, Bheki Cele’s nomination of Jennifer DikelediNtlatseng as the new Executive Director of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).
The DA does not support this appointment and believes that Parliament has again been relegated to nothing more than a rubber stamp of the ANC.
There is currently a case before the courts regarding the renewal process of the former IPID head and earlier this year the Minister himself missed his own legislated deadline to appoint a new head of IPID.
Our repeated appeals against this flawed nomination process have been blatantly ignored by the Committee and it is our view that the nomination of Ms Ntlatseng as IPID head contravenes Section 6 (5) of the IPID Act which requires the vacancy to be filled within one year.