NEWS ANALYSIS: SAPS WARS: Battle for Cape’s police chief post intensifies amid turmoil

A policeman in the running to become the Western Cape’s next police chief is embroiled in a two-decade-long legal battle which has left him squaring off against the police ministry and is adding to police friction and infighting in the province.

This prompted Police Minister Bheki Cele to start probing allegations of instability in the Western Cape’s police leadership. The duo successfully fought their transfers in the Cape Town Labour Court in a case that exposed the fragmentation among officers provincially and nationally.READ:This time AGU member Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear alleged a group of officers, some with links to the province’s current crime intelligence head, Mzwandile Tiyo, were plotting against him and colleagues, including Vearey and Jacobs.

It was under this administration that Jacobs and Vearey were controversially transferred in that contested 2016 reshuffle, which also saw Lincoln being moved sideways. This included rumoured military intelligence operative Cyril Beeka, who had suspected ties to ANC heavyweights, and alleged links to police officers and to the Mafia.

But it became the source of extreme embarrassment for the ANC because it imploded and became the core of one of the country’s messiest and longest-running legal sagas, with high-level political offshoots.This related to suspicions that he was in cahoots with Palazzolo. His advocate Johann Nortje was unsure if Pitu investigations had anything to do with subsequent pushback against Lincoln.Lincoln was acquitted in 2009 he should have been reinstated in terms of a section of the SAPS Act.

In September 2017, the court ruled that Lincoln failed to prove that he had been maliciously prosecuted.

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