Lieutenant-General Sehlahle Fannie Masemola is South Africa’s new national police commissioner and, according to President Cyril Ramaphosa, now has “the weight of the nation’s expectation” on his shoulders.
“General Masemola has been a deputy police commissioner with an outstanding record of achievements in policing across South Africa. This includes helping with the de-escalation of violence in KwaZulu-Natal after our first democratic elections in 1994,” Ramaphosa said.
“[He] also brings to this position his experience in drastically reducing cash-in-transit crimes in the period around 2016. General Masemola played a leading role in coordinating security for all elections since and including 1994.”
Masemola was also pivotal in securing “major national and international events in our country, including United Nations summits, climate conferences and the 2010 Fifa World Cup”.
Who is Fannie Masemola
Fannie Masemola is a police officer who was working as a deputy police commissioner of South Africa has now been appointed as the new National Police Commissioner of South Africa. He has worked in the police department for a very long time and thus has received his due reward. He was appointed by the President of South Africa.
Fannie Masemola Age
Masemola was born around 1963 and he is 59 years old currently.
Fannie Masemola Wife
Fannie is married to a very beautiful woman, but her name is unknown.
Fannie Masemola Children
There is no information regarding his children.
Fannie Masemola Salary
Details about his salary have not been publicized.
Fannie Masemola Qualifications
He is an exact police officer who has worked in numerous positions across the country as he ascends through ranks. He has also been a senior nationwide commissioner and a career cop for a very long time. He has a wide range of experience.
Fannie Masemola Education
According to a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, Masemola has years of experience in the police force.
Fannie Masemola Hometown
Fannie was born in South Africa.
Some of the uphill work he faces, aside from tackling crime, includes:
- Boosting staff morale following years of infighting among cops, policing scandals, and the arrest of police officers.
- Dealing with the ongoing problem of firearms being smuggled from police officers to criminals and trying to improve the functioning of the Central Firearms Register, which Parliament recently heard was mostly still based in a building in Tshwane not fit for occupation.
- Dealing with allegations of corruption at the Crime Intelligence unit, which over a decade was ravaged and became one of the poster children of State Capture, which thrived when Jacob Zuma was president between 2009 and 2018.
- Smoothing over and dealing with intense mistrust among police in the Western Cape, South Africa’s gangsterism capital, where Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear was assassinated in September 2021. At the time of his killing, Kinnear was investigating underworld crimes as well as allegations that police in Gauteng were supplying fraudulent gun licence certificates to criminals in the Western Cape.
It emerged in February that Sitole was standing down from the national commissioner position ahead of schedule. Ramaphosa said this was “in the best interest of the country”.
See the statement released by Masemola on Friday, April 1, 2022 here: