By Anita Dangazele
- Suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Feroz Khan has lost his Labour Court bid to halt a disciplinary process against him.
- A police union took the case to court on his behalf, but Judge Connie Prinsloo dismissed it, ordering the union to pay legal costs.
Suspended Crime Intelligence deputy head Feroz Khan has lost his legal fight to stop a police disciplinary process that could cost him his job.
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, POPCRU, brought the case to the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Khan’s behalf, seeking to halt a fast-tracked internal hearing that had already found him guilty of misconduct and bringing the South African Police Service into disrepute, and recommended he be dismissed. Khan also wanted the court to remove KwaZulu-Natal district commissioner Jabulani Khumalo from overseeing the process.
Judge Connie Prinsloo heard the matter on 25 and 26 August and struck it off the court roll on 31 August, ruling that the Labour Court did not have jurisdiction and that the case was not urgent. She ordered POPCRU to pay the legal costs.
Khan was not present at the original disciplinary hearing, as he has been recovering from gunshot wounds since being shot in Johannesburg on 28 June. The case named the Minister of Police, acting national police commissioner Lieutenant General Hilda Khosi Senthumule, Crime Intelligence divisional commissioner Lieutenant General Dumisani Khumalo, and Major General Jabulani Khumalo as respondents.
Khan had been due to testify before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on 1 September, but his appearance has been put on hold after reports that he was readmitted to hospital.
Pictured above: Major General Feroz Khan lost his Labour Court application against the South African Police Service.
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