THE BUCK STOPS HERE
May 06, 2022
4 minutes
BY LESEGO SEOKWANG
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ONKGOPOTSE KOLOTI
HE’S always wanted to be a policeman. His father was a cop, as were his uncles and he can’t think of a time when he didn’t want to work in the field of law enforcement.
But if his dad had his way, South Africa’s new police commissioner would’ve become a teacher. “I didn’t like that,” says Lieutenant General Sehlahle Fannie Masemola, the man now occupying one of the hottest seats in the civil service.
“My first choice was to be a police official, and other choices were to be a lawyer or a magistrate.”
With the support of his uncle, he pursued his dream and after rising
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