Durban - KwaZulu-Natal’s provincial police commissioner will return to work after acting national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane failed in his bid to keep her out of office.
Durban High Court judge Nkosinathi Chili dismissed an application to appeal his earlier judgment overturning Phahlane’s decision to suspend Lieutenant-General Mmamonnye Ngobeni.
Ngobeni has been accused of getting businessman Thoshan Panday to pay for her husband’s lavish birthday party and ordering the head of the Hawks in KwaZulu-Natal to stop investigating Panday's involvement in a R60 million police accommodation tender. Ngobeni said she paid Panday back and denied interfering with the investigation.