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PHAHLANE FIRED FOR CONTRACT HE DIDN’T SIGN

The SA Police Service (SAPS) bought the wrong forensic cameras for R92 million in a deal involving a retired senior officer, it failed to take steps to set the defective decision aside, and it did not bother to defend a R24 million lawsuit for breach of contract – which was settled without a single camera being delivered.

The costly blunder has been put on former acting top cop Khomotso Phahlane’s head, whose version of events is that he was

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