{"id":37945,"date":"2013-05-16T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=37945"},"modified":"2013-05-16T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T06:26:11","slug":"hawks-spokesman-fired-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/37945\/hawks-spokesman-fired-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks spokesman fired: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Hawks spokesman McIntosh Polela has been fired, The Star newspaper reported on Thursday (16 May).<\/p>\n

“The officer was dismissed on March 27, 2013, and the internal appeals authority confirmed the same,” Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa reportedly said in a written response to a question from the Democratic Alliance in Parliament this week.<\/p>\n

“The officer was paid R323,238.41 during the period he was on suspension,” Mthethwa said, according to the newspaper report.<\/p>\n

Polela declined to comment to The Star.<\/p>\n

He was suspended last year, apparently after he tweeted in October: “I trust Jub Jub’s supporters gave him a jar of vaseline to take to prison.”<\/p>\n

He was commenting after the conviction of Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye and his co-accused Themba Tshabalala for murdering four schoolchildren and attempting to murder two others while drag racing in a street in Soweto in March 2010. They were each sentenced to serve in effect 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n

More on the Hawks<\/h3>\n

R23 million Lefatshe Technologies contract investigated by Hawks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Corruption in the ICT sector<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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