In the space of six weeks Ramaphosa has fired police chief Khehla Sitole announced a new intelligence chief Thembisile Majola as director-general of the State Security Agency (SSA) Advocate Andrea Johnson as head of the National Prosecuting Authority's investigating directorate and proposed sweeping changes to the ruling party's disciplinary and review committees...

The writing is on the wall for National Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole and Police Minister Bheki Cele after President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation address in which he indicated that he would soon announce leadership changes in the security agencies amid a host of other reform promises...

Ramaphosa's multiple headaches include: massive fraud on emergency procurement contracts in response to the pandemic; the police commissioner Khehla Sitole who is being investigated for a role in the assassination of senior anti-corruption police officer Charl Kinnear; continuing sabotage and destruction of public infrastructure after the failed insurrection last July; and a populist campaign to remove him from office with former President Zuma as figurehead (AC Vol 62 No 16 After the insurrection)...

Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole conceded at a parliamentary inquiry that the police were not 'equal to the task' in dealing with sabotage of infrastructure and riots in July...

Police Commissioner Khehla Sitole conceded at a parliamentary inquiry that the police were not 'equal to the task' in dealing with the looting sabotage of infrastructure and riots...

The divisions in the police had been exacerbated by a nine-month stand-off between Cele and the Commissioner of Police Khehla Sitole who was appointed by Zuma...

Police Minister Bheki Cele and Police Service Director Khehla Sitole had been due to arrest the former President by midnight on 7 July...